Kentucky News - September 18, 2012

State:

• Al Cross | New hope on higher teacher quality for Kentucky (The Courier-Journal)
• Students learn how to care for horses in new program at Horse Park (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• University of Kentucky will pay new general counsel $200,000 (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Georgetown College shows off new residential townhomes (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Madison County schools ranked 49th, Berea 60th in efficiency (The Richmond Register)
• Bellarmine gets $600,000 in federal funding for scholarships (Business First of Louisville)
• UK Healthcare expansion plans could cost $1B (Business First of Louisville)
• KSU Receives Grant To Study Food Production Using Reclaimed Water and Biosolids (Kentucky State University News)
• Governor appoints AIMS director to human rights commission (The News.org)
• Higginson announces resignation, decides to teach again (The News.org)
• Learning experiences outside the classroom (The Northerner)
• Kentucky-built satellite reaches earth orbit (Morehead State University News)
• MSU top ranked college for 9th straight year (Morehead State University News)
• Middle College students' ACT scores exceed those of high schools (The Richmond Register)
• On the right TREK (The Richmond Register)
• High scores bring high dollars to high-achieving students (The Richmond Register)
• MSU satellite launched into Earth orbit (Daily Independent)
• U of L President James Ramsey needs to weigh in on tax reform (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky law mistakenly excludes many for-profit colleges (The Courier-Journal)

National:

• Career and Technical Education, a Key to Good Jobs, Needs Help, Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Strengthening the Core (Inside Highe Ed)
• All About the Money (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Michigan colleges to be rewarded for lower increases in tuition rate (Detroit Free Press)
• Education Dept. Catalogs Ideas for Improving Students' Success in College (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Most States Providing Common-Core Instructional Materials (Education Week)
• Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences (New York Times)
• The Budget Cuts to Come (Inside Higher Ed)
• Obama's college tuition plans face tough fight (cnn.com)