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Education

Education

Call it racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2019, 7:12 AM May 23, 2019

It’s 2019 and if high school students in Chaska are still dabbling in blackface, Chaska has some racist students. Read more →

Education

A rat and aardvark got married, and it’s too hot for Alabama

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2019, 1:00 PM May 21, 2019
20

A rat and an aardvark got married in a cartoon and that’s too hot to handle for the children of Alabama.

That’s pretty much 2019 in a nutshell. Read more →

Education · Politics

Signs of the times: ‘Obscene’ teachers’ signs upset lawmakers

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2019, 8:10 AM May 21, 2019
34

Some members of the Minnesota Legislature and political allies had their feelings hurt by strident signs from teachers imploring them to get it together in the final days of a do-little legislative session.
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Education · People doing good

Commencement speaker tells grads to ‘pay it forward.’ Then he pays off their student loans

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 19, 2019, 4:18 PM May 19, 2019
1

For the most part, commencement speakers are a pretty forgettable lot. They might be good for a few laughs but within a few months, they become a trivia question.

Suffice it to say, though, the Morehouse College seniors are not going to forget their commencement speaker. Read more →

Education

Thanks to a teacher and seniors, some kids learn what it’s like to write a letter

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 17, 2019, 12:58 PM May 17, 2019
5

Allison Birkemeier proves again that teachers are awesome. She came up with the letter writing idea while visiting the retirement home. She said some of her students didn’t know how to write letters. And they’ve never gotten anything in the mail, she told the Omaha World Herald. Read more →

Education

And now this message from the commencement attire

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 15, 2019, 7:01 AM May 15, 2019
24

Gina Warren, 18, a graduating senior at at Teays Valley High School in Ashville, Ohio, has proven that she’s fully ready to take on the world.

You ready, world? Read more →

Education · People doing good

When cop adopted a girl, ‘it was meant to be’

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 13, 2019, 7:45 AM May 13, 2019
2

Why do some children survive the very worst life can throw at them and some don’t? Quite often, it’s one person who gives a damn. Read more →

Education

In calling out racism, anti-Semitism, professor defends tenure

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 10, 2019, 8:26 AM May 10, 2019
29

That Katharine Gerbner feared retaliation if she’d said something before getting tenure is a commentary on top of her commentary. Read more →

Education

St. Paul teacher caught using the n-word

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 10, 2019, 7:01 AM May 10, 2019

You’ll want to check the calendar — spoiler alert: it’s 2019 — while reading the St. Paul Pioneer Press story about a teacher in the city school system who thought it acceptable — if only for a moment — to use the ‘N word’ in polite conversation. Read more →

Education · Politics · Regional history

Teacher rises to the defense of history

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 8, 2019, 8:57 AM May 8, 2019
12

The Republican majority in the Minnesota Senate, with the help of a few DFLers — is trying to strip money from the Society in retaliation for its decision to add a single word to a sign for the Fort Snelling Historical Site Read more →

Education

Black student gets honorary degree 63 years after she was denied college

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 7, 2019, 1:42 PM May 7, 2019
1

Autherine Lucy Foster was able to walk onto the campus of the University of Alabama in 1956, four years after she applied for admission, igniting a legal battle. Three days later, she was expelled. Read more →

Education

High school teacher pens a Generation Z dictionary

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 7, 2019, 11:44 AM May 7, 2019
7

James Callahan, 43, a teacher in Lowell, Mass., apparently didn’t understand a lot of what his students were saying when he started a list, which, in the last week or so, has been a Twitter hit. He started a dictionary of Generation Z language. Read more →

Education

Whatever happened to school bullying?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 6, 2019, 9:59 AM May 6, 2019
10

Nothing. Read more →

Education

Settle down, Bemidji. Nobody is banning the U.S. flag.

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2019, 7:04 AM Apr 29, 2019
12

Rumors swept through the northwest Minnesota town on Thursday that the high school had banned the American flag, No, it didn’t.
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Education

It’s pink slip time for teachers

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 26, 2019, 7:04 AM Apr 26, 2019
12

This is a tough time to be a young teacher in Minnesota’s school districts. It’s pink slip time, when your bosses get to suggest in public you’re not good enough for them but they can’t or won’t say exactly why. Read more →

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