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.More Scholarships available.

Wastebasket Revue Scholarships applications available in the CRC.  Deadline is February 16th.  Osseo Area Retired Educators' Scholarship is due March 22, 2011.  Flora Rogge Scholarship is due by March 23, 2011 at the at the Education Minnesota - Osseo office at 10200 73rd Avenue No. #126, Maple Grove, MN 55369.  Come to the CRC to a copy. 

Stossel in the Classroom essay contest

Simply  view John Stossel's recent special, "Politicians' Top 10 Promises Gone Wrong" (view the streaming video here), and write an essay on the following Essay Topic:

Why do you think politicians make promises? When they try to keep them, why are there often unintended consequences? Describe a promise made by a current politician or political candidate from any party, and discuss whether or not he/she will be able to keep that promise and what, if any, are some potential unintended consequences from that promise. Please use at least one example from the Stossel special or other Stossel report to support your response.

Essay deadline is February 6, 2012.

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Demand there, but tech classes cut! Why?

Space is much more limited today in Minnesota's career and technical education classes because the state has slashed more than half of its course offerings in recent years. Demand, meantime, remains strong.

Don't we want someone to be trained in these technical areas and  have people to be able to fix the air conditioner when it is 97 degrees and high humidity or fix our plumbing when it doesn't work?  These are well paying jobs.

http://www.startribune.com/local/east/136631848.html

"How much are students actually learning in contemporary higher education? The answer for many undergraduates, we have concluded, is not much," write the authors of Academically Adrift. Scott Jaschik's profile of the book