November 24, 2008 - MPR’s Kerri Miller interviews Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and Vincent Tinto, Professor at Syracuse University, on the cost of high education.
November 26, 2008 - After a nearly 20 year history, charter schools in the Twin Cities continue to perform worse, are more segregated than traditional public schools -- and they're also forcing those traditional public schools to become more segregated. Those are the findings of a new report called "Broken Promises" -- from the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. But the conclusions are not necessarily swaying those who run charters.
November 26, 2008 - A new report concludes charter schools in the Twin Cities are failing to perform as well as traditional public schools, and they're more segregated. Researchers from the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota compared test scores at public and charter schools in the Twin Cities. The study found charters usually score worse than traditional public schools that have similar percentages of students in poverty. It also found more charter schools have opened that serve only a narrow student population, such as all-black and all-white schools. But Mo Chang, the principal of a mostly-Hmong charter in St. Paul, says it's not segregation if parents choose to send their kids there.
January 15, 2009 - As part of a weekly NewsCut focus, MPR’s Bob Collins embarks on a set of college tours to see how the tough economy is impacting young people. In this segment, Collins visits Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
January 23, 2009 - As part of a weekly NewsCut focus, MPR’s Bob Collins embarks on a set of college tours to see how the tough economy is impacting young people. In this segment, Collins visits Vermillion Community College in Ely, Minnesota.
January 29, 2009 - As part of a weekly NewsCut focus, MPR’s Bob Collins embarks on a set of college tours to see how the tough economy is impacting young people. In this segment, Collins visits Minneapolis Community and Technical College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
February 12, 2009 - As part of a weekly NewsCut focus, MPR’s Bob Collins embarks on a set of college tours to see how the tough economy is impacting young people. In this segment, Collins visits the Worthington Campus of Minneapolis Community and Technical College in Worthington, Minnesota.
February 18, 2009 - MPR’s Kerri miller interviews Lori Montgomery, a financial reporter for the Washington Post, and Cheryl Peterson, the manager of the Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity foreclosure counseling service in Minneapolis.
March 9, 2009 - Some of the state's best high school poets competed for the state championship, with eighteen students from across the state took part in the 'Poetry Out Loud' contest. They were judged by a panel on seven criteria, including physical presence and level of difficulty. The champion, Thandisizwe Jackson-Nisan, was named after three rounds of poems.
March 26, 2009 - MPR’s Tim Post interviews various students, college administrators, and politicians on how they feel about attendees of private for-profit institutions being restricted from the State Grant Program. such institutions include business schools, truck driving schools, and barber colleges.