Kentucky News - June 2, 2011

State:

• MSU named to the President's HECS honor roll (The Morehead News)
• Inmates further education in GED program (Daily News)
• SCC credits made available to students at SHS and county schools (Commonwealth Journal)
• Somerset Community College ranked as one of the nation's 120 best community colleges (Somerset Community College)
• Haselton to remain interim dean at U of L college of education (Business First of Louisville)
• Workforce Development: Nine Lexington area colleges, universities form consortium to build awareness among adults, businesses (The Lane Report)
• WKU Small Business Development Center for 10-county Barren River Area relocates to WKU Center for Research and Development (The Lane Report)
• U of L dental and medical community to help fill health care need in Appalachia (The Lane Report)
• Campus payments not due until 2012 (The Paducah Sun)
• 3 finalists named for Fayette superintendent job (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Web page to address high percentage of suspensions of black students (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Two finalists for JCPS superintendent from North Carolina and Michigan (The Courier-Journal)
• Fewer JCPS students dropped out in 2009-10 (The Courier-Journal)

National:

• Common-standards supports for teachers eyed (Education Week)
• Some states wary of new race to top cash (Education Week)
• The e-reader effect (Inside Higher Ed)
• For-profit colleges may face aid cuts (USA Today)
• More area community college students bypassing UC, CSU (Sacramento News)
• At elite school, longer classes to go deeper (New York Times)
• For-profit colleges win major concessions in final 'gainful employment' rule (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Only 5 colleges do well by low-income students, report says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Online learning portals: Customizing colleges right out of higher education? (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Lawmakers vote to increase retirement costs for teachers, state employees (The Montgomery Advertiser)