Kentucky News - May 19, 2011

• 28 applied to be next JCPS superintendent (The Courier-Journal)
• Poll: College grads hit by recession (Cincinnati.com)
• Fed dollars aid library, campus project in E. Ky (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Endeavour launch carries Kentucky Space Center experiment (Morehead State University News)
• Faculty groups to pursue national campaign to fortify U.S. higher education (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
• To raise educational levels, focus on income-based inequality, report urges (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Regents add test results to teacher evaluations and cut some high school exams (The New York Times)
• Indiana U. to shutter continuing education school (Inside Higher Ed)
• College credit for life experience: 2 groups offer assessment services (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• More distance-education students means more off-site instructors, survey finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Many with new college degree find the job market humbling (The New York Times)
• To become first in number of college degrees, U.S. must increase grad rate by 50 percent (opinion) (University Business)