Kentucky News - June 23, 2011

State:

• Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative (Kentucky Teacher)
• KCTCS will add slight increase for tuition (Levisa Lazer)
• AVID hosts summer institutes to train 20,000 educators (WAVE3)
• MSU students have experiment launched into space (The Morehead News)
• Early College Program hosts 'Superintendent Appreciation Day' (Morehead State University News)
• Union County Public Schools honored as first Kentucky district to receive Kentucky Center for Performance Excellence Award (Union County Advocate)
• Gatton Academy ranked fifth in the nation (WBKO.com)
• HCTC to offer Health Information degree this fall (Hazard Herald)
• Just what the dr. ordered - enroll in College (Leslie County News)
• Sharpsburg gets $1 million in funding for community education and training center (Daily Reporter)
• Blackboard, K12 Pilot Developmental Math Program (Campus Technology)
• KHEAA offers StudentTracker (Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority)
• Despite accord on pay rates, Humana and Louisville doctors remain at a standoff (The Courier-Journal)

National:

• Hunt is on for overseas college students (USA Today)
• At UC-San Diego, first-generation students get help from retired professors (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• BOE panel recommends tougher graduation standards (Star-Advertiser)
• In data, ‘A’ schools leave many not ready for CUNY (The New York Times)