Educators Create Task Force, Try to Fill Teaching Positions

  There is a gathering crisis in education; it’s the fact that fewer and fewer people are going into teaching as a profession. And now educators from across the state have created a task force to help fill near-term vacant teaching positions and address the issue long-term.

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6 Cost-Savers to Make Paying for College Easier

  Got a kid heading to college in the next few years? Worried about the rising cost of tuition? Worried about your kid graduating beholden to the bank? If you answered yes, this article has a few simple tips that might save you from sticker shock.

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Moorhead Schools to Provide 1,000 Computers for Students in Pilot Program

  The Moorhead School District will spend more than $250,000 so they can provide computers for individual students. The pilot program is designed to help the district weigh the costs and impact on learning.

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UND President Robert Kelley Announces Retirement

  Effective this January, Robert Kelly will be stepping down as President of UND. The announcement was made after the results of a staff survey revealed a work atmosphere that was less than favorable.

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ND High School Grad Rate Up, College Readiness?

NPR has a story today about a few trends that are taking place in education. Nationally and in North Dakota the picture looks good; we’re at all-time-highest graduation rates! But that’s just the appearance at first blush. NPR enlisted 14 reporters to look deeper into the issue, and what they found reveals a more complicated

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Minot Public Schools Hires Tracey Lawson as Assistant Superintendent

Tracey Lawson, previously the principal at Longfellow Elementary, has been hired as Minot Public School’s Assistant Superintendent for elementary education. Minot Daily has the story along with other business of the school board. This article requires a Google search redirect to bypass the MDN paywall.

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NASA Awards Up to $750,000 to UND for Aerospace Research

UND Was awarded $750,000 over three years to build a research station focused on NASA’s work in Earth science, aeronautics, and deep space exploration. The funds are made available through NASA’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, which awards Research Infrastructure Development (RID) grants every three to five years to jurisdictions to bolster

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Old Time Fiddlers Workshop and Contest at International Music Camp

It’s not just the music of our grandfathers; the fiddle tradition is alive and well at the International music camp with both ongoing instruction and foot-stomping competitions. KX News has the story.

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Universities are the New Multinational Corporations

More and more, American Universities are setting up shop in foreign countries. What’s behind this trend? Jason E. Lane writing for Quartz takes a closer look at the cultural phenomenon.

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NDSU Foundation Head Sought $600,000 in Severance

Information uncovered through an Attorney General opinion reveals just how good a job not working for the NDSU foundation really is. In the end, a now former employee was fired for cause and paid a 4-month $104,000 severance package.

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ND Attorney General: NDSU Foundation Broke Open Meetings Law

The NDSU Development Foundation is having trouble staying on the right side of the law when it comes to making their business open and available to the public.

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NDSU Begins $1.7 Million Library Renovation

  A significant renovation is getting underway in NDSU’s library and will be ongoing for the next five months. The renovation will include compliance changes for the Americans with Disabilities Act and improve library operations. The last renovation was in 1980.

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MAFB: Random Acts of Kindness at Dakota Elementary

The month of May was 'Random Act of Kindness' month at Dakota Elementary, and during the last week of school students put what they learned back into the world. This is a great story from Minot Air Force Base.

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Canada: New Program Has First Nations’ Reading Scores Soaring

In Canada, Native Americans are referred to as ‘First Nations’, and the challenges within these communities are the same. In 2010, Canada made a point of improving reading and writing skills among First Nations with a new program and the results are impressive.

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Getting Familiar: Minot State University Connect Orientation

The first days of college can be overwhelming ones, and Minot State University is working to ease the transition with summer orientation programs designed for new students. KMOT has the story.

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Kids Who Learn a Foreign Language are Better at Understanding People

The study indicates that kids who are simply exposed to another language in their daily lives are better at understanding people, and joins a growing body of evidence that suggests speakers of multiple languages have advantages in work and life.  

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