Kentucky News - May 31, 2012

State:

• BGHS achieves national ranking (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Steve Beshear scholarship program criticized as neglectful to some Kentucky coal counties (Courier-Journal)
• Editorial | Shutting the door on public scrutiny (Courier-Journal)
• Homegrown jobs spur economy (Herald-Leader)
• Steve Beshear: Citizen guidance needed on modernizing state tax code (Herald-Leader)
• Former prof writes book about tenure case at MSU (Murray Ledger and Times)
• Academically Proficient High School Junior and Senior Diversity Conference (Kentucky Teacher)
• Forward in the Fifth’s 2012 AppLE Award winners (Kentucky Teacher)
• UPike names Hurley president-elect (AIKCU)
• UK College of Education to offer summer K-8 literacy course (Kentucky Teacher)
• Health and Family Services chief inducted into UK College of Social Work’s Hall of Fame (Lane Report)
• U.S. jobless claims, job cuts spike (Business First of Louisville)
• Private Employers Added 133,000 Jobs In May, Report Says (WEKU)

National:

• ACE Launches National Search for Lifelong Learning Innovator (American Council on Education)
• Pruning the Branches (Inside Higher Education)
• Impact of British Visa Rules (Inside Higher Education)
• The Pulse: Seton Hill's iPad Experiment (Inside Higher Education)
• Higher Ed Analysts Bolt Education Sector for New America (Inside Higher Education)
• Free Textbook Bill Advances in California (Inside Higher Education)
• Law Professors Urge Obama to Use Authority to Help Immigrant Students (Inside Higher Education)
• Federal waiver in hand, state to get tough evaluating schools (The Columbus Dispatch)
• California Bills Would Put Free Textbooks Online (The Chronicle)
• New America Foundation Picks Leader of Education-Policy Program (The Chronicle)
• A Gap in College Graduates Leaves Some Cities Behind (New York Times)
• Students Press for Action on Immigration (New York Times)
• On Campus, New Deals With Banks (New York Times)
• Many cool on making teacher ratings public (USA Today)
• Maryland wins ‘No Child’ waiver (Washington Post)
• What parents say testing is doing to their kids (Washington Post)
• New momentum for the three-year degree? (Washington Post)