Kentucky News - January 30, 2012

State:

• 2012 Regional Education Summit focuses on investing in the future (Kentucky New Era)
• Hazard Herald Editorial | Don't divert severance funds to UPike effort (The Courier-Journal)
• Hal Heiner & Wayne Lewis | Why public charter schools are important (The Courier-Journal)
• College presidents wary of Obama's cost-control tuition plan (The Courier-Journal)
• N is for Nurse: Students learn to care for and heal others (WKU Herald)
• Rolling out the red carpet (Daily News)
• Online education for K-12 students is growing (Kypost.com)
• For teachers, learning never stops (Daily Independent)
• President Sias giving $37,500 of her own funds to KSU's campaign (The State Journal)
• UK converting former Northside library to teacher training center (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• New Kentucky student assessment test: Prepare to be confused (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Using student test scores to evaluate teachers unfair (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Community college students losing aid, leaving (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Foreign college students increasing in Ky. (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• WKU Holds College Goal Sunday (WBKO.com)
• Determined teen doesn't let anything stall her (The Paducah Sun)

National:

• Aid Experts and Officials Question President's College-Affordability Plans (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• 'Gainful' Comes to the Nonprofits (Inside Higher Ed)
• Canadian 2-year colleges show path to jobs (The Washington Post)
• Standard vs. Emerging Campus EdTech Project Models (Inside Higher Ed)