Education

The College of St. Benedict and St. John's University are number one when it comes to sending students overseas. St. Ben's and St. John's offer semester-long study abroad programs in 14 countries on six continents.

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As always, our kids are keeping both feet on the ground while they reach for the stars.
(Thank you Kasey Kasem!)

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Instead of spending $175,000 for new statistics and probability textbooks, three teachers in the Anoka-Hennepin school district stepped up and created their own.

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A new report finds Minnesota students are near top in the nation in yet another category, college debt. Members of the class of 2010 from Minnesota colleges and universities who took out loans graduated with an average of $29,000 in debt, the fourth-highest in the nation.

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Recent protests - and protesters - have cast aspersions on St. Cloud State University. What is REALLY happening? Listen to what SCSU President Earl Potter had to say during our conversation on WJON.

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November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo (nano-rhymo) and people all around the country will be signing up to complete a 50,000 word novel in the span of one month. A group of about half a dozen aspiring writer met for a group writing session at the St. Cloud Public Library last night to kick off the event.

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The University of Minnesota's new President Eric Kaler is spending the day today (Tuesday) in St. Cloud. Kaler will be speaking to the St. Cloud Rotary Club, and will also visit St. Cloud Hospital, the U's Residency Clinic, and Extension office.

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Voters in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district are being asked to go to the polls on November 8th. The district has put two operating levy questions on the ballot.

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Governor Mark Dayton is back in town today (Thursday). He's helping to break ground on St. Cloud State University's new Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility.

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All over America, kids are under attack. Often viewed as lazy, unintelligent, and a burden, this edition of KIDSPEAK shows that students in Central Minnesota are doing just fine, thank you very much!

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