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Beth Hawkins

Beth Hawkins writes Learning Curve, a blog about education, for MinnPost and also covers a variety of other public policy topics. She loves writing for an audience that’s hungry for context and analysis and willing to indulge her many curiosities. Hawkins is the recipient of numerous national and regional awards, including several first-place Society of Professional Journalists Page One awards for investigative reporting and feature writing. Her work has appeared in More, Mother Jones, Minnesota Monthly and many other publications.

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Beating long odds, hard work is paying off for Southwest IB student

By Beth Hawkins | 04/11/11
On Friday afternoon, Southwest High School senior Alex Glaze was waiting to hear whether he would receive a Gates Millennium Scholarship.
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Political battles still raging over Michelle Rhee and 'Erasuregate' controversy

By Beth Hawkins | 04/08/11
Remember those hanging chads?
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Anti-bullying bills seen as especially important to children with disabilities

By Beth Hawkins | 04/06/11
The Minnesota Safe Schools 4 All Coalition, a group of children’s advocates, is meeting this morning at the state Capitol to draw attention to two anti-bullying bills recently introduced at the Legislature.
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Education bill's fine print forbids education commissioner from implementing Common Core standards

By Beth Hawkins | 04/05/11
Whatever the fine folks at the Legislative Office of the Revisor of Statutes are paid, it’s not nearly enough.
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MPS seeks people to advise on North High redesign

By Beth Hawkins | 04/04/11
Over the next week and a half, Minneapolis Public Schools will be soliciting applications from community members interested in serving on a committee that will help redesign North High School.
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Along with the bliss of spring comes the dreaded standardized-test time

By Beth Hawkins | 04/01/11
In coming days, Minnesota schoolchildren will be asked to submit to a series of standardized tests that virtually everyone agrees are not just useless, but an expensive waste of classroom time.
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House quietly drops popular plan to launch statewide pre-K rating system

By Beth Hawkins | 03/31/11
Authored by Rep. Jenifer Loon, an Eden Prairie Republican, the bill was revenue-neutral and enjoyed bipartisan backing.
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Ali Carr-Chellman on how our schools fail to engage kids -- boys, in particular

By Beth Hawkins | 03/29/11
Ostensibly, this video of Ali Carr-Chellman is about using computer gaming to engage boys in schools.
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What to do with an ineffective teacher? St. Paul starts with support, and moves to accountability

By Beth Hawkins | 03/28/11
Stories about bad teachers (and archaic contracts that make it impossible to fire them)  make headlines. But the process of getting better or leaving can actually move fairly quickly.
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U's continuing-ed college offers planning help for baby boomers' 'encore lives'

By Beth Hawkins | 03/25/11
Since Learning Curve’s inception, I’ve found reasons to write about learning beginning literally at birth, on up through the post-graduate level.