Head Start, expanded into 3rd grade, has been shown to reduce an achievement gap, reduce the need for later special education funding, and even reduce the need for general assistance in society. We in Minnesota should care since Minnesota has the worst or near worst graduation rates in the nation for our Black, Indian, Asian/ [...]
Updated 5/2/2013 MinnCAN gently let me know that my figures for “agree” did not include “strongly agree”. I’ve changed the polling results below and added an image. Also, here’s what they define as “effective” teaching: ”For the purposes of this survey, teacher effectiveness is defined by the ability to advance student learning such that, [...]
Senator Al Franken, MN-D. In this FY14 Early Childhood Education Appropriations Letter Minnesota’s Senator Al Franken is leading the effort to properly fund Head Start and other early childhood learning programs. Here’s the appropriations letter which is a request for early education funding and funding for a new federal-state partnership program to assist states in implementing high-quality [...]
It’s National Crime Victim’s Rights Week! The good news is that crime is at an all time low: Property crime, which has been in a decline for nine years, also continued to drop, albeit by 0.8 percent, notes Reuters. The peak of violent crime and property crime came in the early ’90s. The 2011 report represents [...]
I watched National Geographic’s The Human Tree on Minnesota’s TPT Channel 2. The Human Tree is about DNA patterns which reveal migratory history. A National Geographic team swabbed several cheek and as a result we met someone with the oldest DNA markers on earth. If you care to participate in the study you can buy your [...]
It’s the Week of the Young Child, a celebration sponsored by the NAEYC to focus public attention on the needs of young children and early childhood education. Minnesota happens to be the home of the chair of the Education and the Workforce Committee, Congressman John Kline. One would think things would go well for education in our [...]
updated March 21, 2013 to include MinnCAN’s tweet (see the tweet farther down the page). Although Rep. John Kline, R-MN, said sequester cuts would be bad, he did not vote for a budget aimed at smart cutting: Washington, D.C. – Despite Rep. John Kline’s estimate that 4,000 Minnesota jobs are in danger along with “hundreds of [...]
Look in our right sidebar and you’ll find history in the making. Yet to be interpreted, Twitter happenings are at least being recorded. Twitter, which focuses on the immediate, doesn’t make it easy to record and archive tweets but we wanted you to see what we’ve been saying. We now offer: !!!!! Hashtag bugs: Note: [...]
Mnpoliticalroundtable.com, mostly manned by MN Central, sometimes manned by MnPact.org‘s Dave Mindeman, and then womanned by Dog Gone and Holly Cairns on the rare occasion, has a new look. MN Central, who uses a pseudonym (and no, I don’t know who he is) often writes from an Independent perspective but agrees with us other writers [...]
Trayvon Martin is still gone and it’s our kids that matter. Of course we need guns but let’s put an end to rapid killing machines and demand background checks. On February 26, 2012, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. While Trayvon’s parents recently held a candelight vigil to commemorate [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
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