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Tutu brings message of love, hope for peace to North High

By Felicia Shultz, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
His words were simple, his message magnificent. “All of you are amazing,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu told some 350 North High students, teachers and youth leaders.MORE »

Gov. Pawlenty's education resume a little thin

By John Fitzgerald, Minnesota 2020
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's appointment to lead a national education commission would suggest that Minnesota, under Pawlenty's leadership, is a national education policy leader.MORE »

New High School on the block

By Edwin Okong'o, Mshale

Trish Flock-Johnson, a physical science teacher at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School supervises student performing an experiment on density. Photo by Edwin Okong'o

A normal American high school student wishing to take a job may be doing so only to earn a few dollars for a movie with a girlfriend or to buy a cool gadget like an iPod.MORE »

Students’ community celebration honored their elders

By Jennifer Holder, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
An eighth-grade class in Minneapolis’ InterDistrict Downtown School (IDDS) is taking pride in their recent event — called Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song — for having accomplished three things; It wasMORE »

American Indian students at U of M protest funding loss

By Heidi Hanse, TC Daily Planet
After a decision cutting all funding for next year, the American Indian Student Cultural Center (AISCC) rallied support April 7 at a U of M hearing on student service fees.MORE »

Girls get a voice

By Shannon Drury, Minnesota Women's Press
After nearly a decade of imagining, networking, fundraising and planning, Laura Jeffrey Academy (LJA), a new girl-focused public charter middle school, plans to open its doors in St.MORE »

Comprehensive sex ed: how a popular and effective bill got lost at the Capitol

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Monitor
With rates of sexually transmitted diseases increasing and teenage pregnancy up for the first time in 16 years, ensuring adequate sexual health information in middle and high schools in Minnesota woulMORE »

Quatrefoil Library

By Kurt Pawlak,
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Poll: Minnesotans suspicious of NCLB

By John Fitzgerald, Minnesota 2020
No Child Left Behind continues to draw suspicion.MORE »

Opt out of No Child Left Behind

By Thomas Hammell, Session Weekly
The House Finance Committee included in its larger omnibus bill a plan that would have the state say no to the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

HF2475, sponsored by Rep.

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