Kentucky News - January 9, 2013

State:

• Higher Ed Consortium to Aid in College Prep (Business Lexington)
• Kentucky fares poorly in education report (Business First of Louisville)
• House member fights KEES ‘disincentive’ (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Kentucky among nation's leaders in nationally certified teachers, but funding in jeopardy (The Courier-Journal)
• Businessman to Donate Alarm Systems to Pulaski County Schools (WBKO)
• Charter Schools in Kentucky (WBKO)
• UK Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation receives $7 million NIH grant (The Lane Report)
• Kentucky ranks 7th nationally in teacher certification results (The Lane Report)
• Deputies attendance rises at Maysville school after Sandy Hook tragedy (Kypost)
• Northern Kentucky University could soon go tobacco-free (Kypost)
• Boyd students encouraged to enter contest (Daily Independent)
• Tobacco-use areas designated at MSU (The Morehead State News)
• NKU aims to ban tobacco on campus (Cincinnati.com)
• New athletics fundraising site details plan for Commonwealth Stadium renovation (Kentucky Kernel)
• UK Confucius funding doubles (Kentucky Kernel)

National:

• Brownback wants to focus on improving reading scores of Kansas fourth-grade students (The Republic)
• Colleges set bar for remedial classes (The Columbus Dispatch)
• Paying for Proof (Inside Higher Ed)
• Study Links State Higher-Education Spending to Demographics and Economy (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Coursera Announces Details for Selling Certificates and Verifying Identities (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• In Disasters, Colleges Take On New Mission: Providing Shelter and Aid (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)