Kentucky News - April 27, 2011

• State adult education offers free GED testing (The Independent)
• Test fee waived through June (The Independent)
• Never too late, GED students say (The Independent)
• Former Ohio chancellor is a candidate for UK presidency (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK faculty group opposes university loan for scoreboards (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• In a first, women surpass men in advanced degrees (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• State OKs Kentucky school corrective plan (The Courier-Journal)
• 2010 Census | In a first, women lead in advanced degrees (The Courier-Journal)
• Cutting-edge classroom (Daily News)
• In a first, women surpass men in advanced degrees (Kypost.com)
• Ky students win $100,000 from Cabinet for Economic Development for their business plan proposals (The Lane Report)
• Boyle County High School offers a jump start on college (The Advocate-Messenger Online)
• BCTC student to design a robotic rover in NASA program (Business Lexington)
• 2 state schools send teams to Science Bowl (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Census: Working women surpass men in bachelor, advanced degrees (USA Today)
• Community college rankings inadequate, critics say (USA Today)
• College teams, relying on deception, undermine gender equity (New York Times)
• Increasing share of adults have college degrees, census bureau finds (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• After 40 semesters, a part-time student sees the finish line (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• 120 community colleges are chosen to compete for $1-million Aspen Institute prize (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Snyder's education plan for Michigan has cash awards, online classes (Detroit Free Press)
• Education standards to be unveiled (Charleston Daily Mail)
• Completion agenda for baby boomers (Inside Higher Ed)
• Working women better educated than working men (Inside Higher Ed)