Reports
Report of the Postsecondary and Workforce Science Readiness P-16 Working Group, 8/08This report starts with broad recommendations to improve the Minnesota science standards. This is followed by reviews of international, national and state standards, national reports on K-12 and post-secondary expectations and the administrative and instructional experience of members. The information from the reviews as well as the experience of the Science Readiness Working Group are the underpinnings of the recommendations. The group also realized that improving Minnesota’s science standards impacts other parts of the educational system. The implications of the proposed science standards improvements are addressed in the final section of this report. (download PDF)
The Future of the Minnesota P-16 Education Partnership by Dr. Suzanne Tacheny
Summarizes the findings of a consulting project that engaged members of the P-16 Partnership in generating ideas for future P-16 Partnership priorities.
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Antecdents of Developmental/Remedial Mathematics Course Taking in Minnesota Public Post-Secondary Institutions: A Report to the Minnesota P-16 Education Partnership Powerpoint presentation from Working Group headed by Geoffrey Maruyama and Leslie Mercer in collaboration with: Ernest Davenpport, Mark Davison, Mayuka Kanada, John Kellogg, Sunghee Kim, and Craig Schoenecke, Minnesota States Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota March, 2008 (download PDF)
The Bologna Club: What U.S. Higher Education Can Learn from a Decade of European
Reconstruction by Clifford Adelman
A paper about the changes in European Union higher education. (download PDF)
Meeting Notes
- June 18, 2008 (download PDF)
- March 3, 2008 (download PDF)
- January 30, 2008 Legislative Briefing and Discussion (download PDF)
- December 19, 2007 (download PDF)
- October 3, 2007 (download PDF)
- June 27, 2007 (download PDF)