Hmong News – Minnesota

Analysis — A Reality Check About the Education Labor Arms Race: Oklahoma & W. Virginia Are Not Gamechangers. Neither Is Janus

Analysis — A Reality Check About the Education Labor Arms Race: Oklahoma & W. Virginia Are Not Gamechangers. Neither Is Janus

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Celebrating Seuss

Celebrating Seuss

She wrote this year’s Big Read book, “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.” Yang lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, but travels the world to share the story of her family and the Hmong people. The book is written as a love letter to her grandmother …

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Lake: Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a Superhero Superintendent. It Needs Empowered Principals to Make Decision for Their Schools

Lake: Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a Superhero Superintendent. It Needs Empowered Principals to Make Decision for Their Schools

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Lake: Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a Superhero Superintendent. It Needs Empowered Principals to Make Decisions for Their Schools

Lake: Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a Superhero Superintendent. It Needs Empowered Principals to Make Decisions for Their Schools

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Fuller: To Truly Honor Dr. King, Teachers Must Fight for Justice Beyond the Schoolhouse Doors for Their Poor Black Students

Fuller: To Truly Honor Dr. King, Teachers Must Fight for Justice Beyond the Schoolhouse Doors for Their Poor Black Students

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Eden: Teachers Nationwide Say Obama’s Discipline ‘Reform’ Put Them in Danger. So Why Are the Unions Fighting DeVos on Repeal?

Eden: Teachers Nationwide Say Obama’s Discipline ‘Reform’ Put Them in Danger. So Why Are the Unions Fighting DeVos on Repeal?

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Jessica Bobo: To Give Our Youngest Students a Boost, Social-Emotional Learning Should Come First — Even Before Academics

Jessica Bobo: To Give Our Youngest Students a Boost, Social-Emotional Learning Should Come First — Even Before Academics

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Storm on track to bring more snow, headaches Tuesday

Storm on track to bring more snow, headaches Tuesday

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Well, we’ll see how this plays out. Says Frederick Melo in the PiPress, “Facing allegations he entered a voting booth to help an elderly Hmong resident vote for him, St. Paul City Council Member Dai Thao formally entered a plea of not guilty Monday to …

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Williams — Transparency, Accountability, Bipartisanship: How Colorado Built One of America’s Strongest Charter School Sectors

Williams — Transparency, Accountability, Bipartisanship: How Colorado Built One of America’s Strongest Charter School Sectors

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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UMN, St. Paul schools partnership aims to support Hmong students

UMN, St. Paul schools partnership aims to support Hmong students

In an effort to better track student literacy, University of Minnesota researchers are working with St. Paul Public Schools to design early literacy assessments in Hmong. St. Paul is home to more than 26,000 Hmong speakers. Researchers and educators hope …

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Innovation Road Trip: From the Wreckage of Detroit, a Curriculum Rises to Teach Science, Social Studies — and Integrity

Innovation Road Trip: From the Wreckage of Detroit, a Curriculum Rises to Teach Science, Social Studies — and Integrity

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Minnesota's top archer is right on target. A lot.

Minnesota’s top archer is right on target. A lot.

Principal David Gundale said Yang is OWL’s first state champ in any sport. She’s also the first Hmong-American student to win Minnesota’s National Archery in Schools Program state archery title and possibly the first student of color, he said. “The schools …

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Opinion: Check Out the NCAA Income Mobility Final Four — Buffalo, Houston, UCLA, Seton Hall. Who Will Win the Championship?

Opinion: Check Out the NCAA Income Mobility Final Four — Buffalo, Houston, UCLA, Seton Hall. Who Will Win the Championship?

The Devil’s in the Details Johnson: To Prepare for 21st Century Jobs, States Must Make Early Literacy a Top Priority Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students …

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Seminary students pay it forward

Seminary students pay it forward

Jonah Yang of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, is creating a presentation for first- and second-generation Hmong Christians in the U.S. and Southeast Asia about the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective and Missio Dei #18, “What is an Anabaptist …

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Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students

Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students

Opinion: Charter Schools Can’t Grow If They Can’t Afford Buildings for Their Students. Some Ways the Federal Government Can Help Opinion: Teacher Turnover Is a Symptom of a Nationwide Shortage of Educators. What 2 Arizona Teachers Are Doing About It in …

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Bradford: Are We Doomed to Repeat NCLB’s Mistakes on Accountability for Minority Students Under ESSA? The Devil’s in the Details

Bradford: Are We Doomed to Repeat NCLB’s Mistakes on Accountability for Minority Students Under ESSA? The Devil’s in the Details

Williams: How One Hmong Charter School In Minnesota Is Preserving Student Culture, Raising Test Scores and Attracting Non-Hmong Students Rausch: Leadership, Commitment, Judgment — 3 Keys for All Authorizers of Public Charters in Creating More Great …

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Minnesota demographer: Question will hurt census accuracy

Minnesota demographer: Question will hurt census accuracy

Minnesota has seen waves of Somali and Hmong immigrants boost its population. Brower says even legal immigrants are concerned about giving the government more information. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is urging Congress to remove the citizenship question …

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Around the state: Teen arrested in 'party bus' killing in Inver Grove Heights

Around the state: Teen arrested in ‘party bus’ killing in Inver Grove Heights

Minnesota has seen waves of Somali and Hmong immigrants boost its population. Brower says even legal immigrants are concerned about giving the government more information. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is urging Congress to remove the citizenship question …

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