Nineteen of Minnesota’s consistently lowest-achieving schools will share nearly $24.5 million of $3.5 billion in federal funds to help turn around student performance.
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics today released a report comparing university spending on athletes vs. those whose primary role at college is academics. Athletes won, the report says.
I’m not entirely sure, yet, how we’re making the transition from the 11 a.m. documentary, “The Great Textbook War,” to the subsequent follow-up conversation, ” What should our kids learn in school?”
It’ll be impossible not to think about current events when you listen to a documentary on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow about a controversy over textbooks that erupted in West Virginia in 1974.