Kentucky News - May 4, 2012

State:

• Grant program prepares students for college (Louisville Cardinal)
• Obama to host UK Wildcats at the White House today (Courier-Journal)
• U of L to graduate first sign-language majors (Courier-Journal)
• WKU-Glasgow honors grads (Glasgow Daily Times)
• Commencements commence starting Saturday (Cincinnati.com)
• Unemployment rate down in county, along with number of employed (Richmond Register)
• Guns in vehicles: Court ruling does not make college campuses less safe (Richmond Register)
• UK’s Cook-Newell honored for diabetes care and education (Lane Report)
• Sign language program to graduate first class of majors (Lane Report)
• U.S. jobless rate falls to 8.1% (Business First of Louisville)
• Graduation brings mixed emotions to students searching for jobs (WKU Herald)
• Tough job market facing spring grads (WKU Herald)
• If you really want it fight for it (The News)
• Academics, athletics affected by poverty (The News)
• Kentucky lags U.S. in lowering teen birth rate (Courier-Journal)
• Hail storm caused damage at U of L (Business First of Louisville)
• New college grads steer clear of startups (Business First of Louisville)
• High schools, colleges prepare for graduations (Daily News)
• WKU advertising team completes rebranding plan (SurfKY)
• Two BHS sophomores chosen for Gatton Academy for Math and Science (The Kentucky Standard)
• BHS chosen for Governor’s Scholar program (The Kentucky Standard)
• NKU tuition to increase $384 per year (Cincinnati.com)
• The sounds of science (Daily Independent)
• University of Louisville sees expensive damage from hail (The Courier-Journal)
• Refugee from Congo is among UK's degree recipients (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• School system fights budget crunch (WKYT.com)

National:

• Principal urges state ed chief to take standardized tests to see problems with exams (Washington Post)
• Massive Courses, Massive Data (Inside Higher Education)
• The Free Agency of Ideas: Senate bill hopes to speed up technology licensing process
• Gains in Access, Less in Success (Inside Higher Education)
• The Money of Study Abroad (Inside Higher Education)
• An Academic Right to an Opinion (Inside Higher Education)
• Coming Cuts (Inside Higher Education)
• As Cases Surge, a Professor's Son Leads Him to Autism Research (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Virtual school to expand services (Tallahassee Democrat)
• Bill Would Pay to Train Teachers of Students With Autism (Education Week)
• In Talks at International Education Summit, Differences and Common Goals Emerge (The Chronicle)
• Free Harvard, MIT classes for all? Yes and no. (The Washington Post)
• State Bonds in Jeopardy as Tobacco Cash Fades (New York Times)