Bob Collins
Now that commencement season is well underway, the find-a-job era begins in earnest.
The days of just throwing a resume in the mail are over, of course. You’ve got to be creative to stand out.
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Education
One of these days, some college or university is going to present the most insightful commencement speaker ever to take the stage. It’ll be a parent who just wanted a better life for their kid. Read more →
There aren’t a lot of debates that have lasted longer than behavior at commencement exercises. It’s that time of year.
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Eleven years after a history professor asked that the statue be removed, Winona State University has done so, moving it to an indoor location. Read more →
As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, there will be debates over appropriate prom attire in the spring in the nation’s high schools. Until this week, it’s been a pretty quiet prom season on the prom dress front.
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There haven’t been many cases of school music programs surviving cutbacks, despite the pleas from parents and educators that there’s learning value in the arts.
But the music program in Laporte, Minn., will play on. Read more →
It’s not popular with a lot of people, I suppose, to point out that teachers — and I will insist that in particular, third grade teachers — are angels on earth. But they are. Teachers put pieces of themselves in their students and then send them off to the world. Read more →
Second-graders can teach a lot to high school seniors about drinking.
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Brenten Bartels and Troian Loken are four months into their work on their prom outfits. So far, they’ve used 125 rolls of duct tape. Read more →
Drew Cloud has been occasionally quoted as one of the leading ‘experts’ on student loans.
Today, it has been revealed he’s fake. There’s no such person.
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This is the time of the year when we wonder why anyone would want to be a teacher in Minnesota. It’s layoff time.
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It was just another day at Stillwater Area High School. Come in. Sit down. Get turned down for prom by a Hollywood star. Read more →
The coach of the Old Rochester High School Bulldogs, in Mattapoisett, Mass., appears to have done everything right once he realized the mismatch his team had on its hands the other day in high school baseball. Read more →
Because the internet is full of parenting experts, some of the reaction was entirely predictable. How can a kid learn to fail if Mom pitches in? Read more →
Mark Kennedy was only 20 months into the job when he applied for an opening for president at the University of Central Florida, a job that paid more and wasn’t located in Grand Forks. If you’re going to apply for a job 20 months after getting one in North Dakota, you better get it. Read more →