In Wednesday’s Northfield News: No quick fixes for class size troubles: At a Feb. 12 school board meeting, several parents expressed concern over how big some classroom numbers have become,…
Category: <span>Education</span>
And that’s just nuts (sorry). In today’s NY Times: With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar: The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature,…
In today’s New York Times, a front page article titled Rural Colleges Seek New Edge and Urbanize: A new concept of the college campus is taking root: a small city…
Last Friday, State Senator Tom Neuville posted this to his blog: What Kind of Education Reform Do We Need? It was triggered by Gov. Pawlenty’s State of the State speech…
This story on the front page of today’s Strib caught my attention: Scholarship foundation drops Edison: A funding and control dispute leads a scholarship donor to Minneapolis schools to pull…
At a social gathering last weekend, I heard a rumor that the Northfield School Board was producing a calendar. I inquired if it was intended as a fund-raising effort, along…
That Tracy Davis, she’s so busy complaining that Northfield is not New York City or worrying that she might have to look at a piece of art that costs less…
There’s a fascinating article in Biodiesel Magazine which summarizes a recently published study by researchers at St. Olaf College and the University of MN. The joint study, “The Environmental, Economic…
As you know from recent blogs by both Tracy and me, Northfield is looking at Low Impact Development. There are a number of emerging technologies that can help protect our…