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Science teachers: Education quality plummets as class sizes rise

While state leaders tout recent science test scores, Minnesota teachers in the trenches say their class sizes have gone up 20 percent in the last five years, which has caused the quality of science education to go down and has raised safety fears.

More than 57 percent of science teachers who took an on-line poll conducted by Minnesota 2020 and the Minnesota Science Teachers Association said theMORE »

St. Paul science success

Jim Schrankler is a modest man. His students just made the high water mark in the state science test and he's trying to spread the glory around. He's pointing his finger at the students, at the classroom teachers, at the computer specialist, at the parents.

Schrankler and the staff at St. Anthony Park Elementary in St. Paul have a right to be proud.MORE »

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