Kentucky News - October 19, 2011

State:

• UK's Capilouto promises campus improvements (Business First of Louisville)
• Investiture ceremony inducts Capilouto (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Questions arise about value of an MBA (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Ky. gubernatorial candidates' stance on higher education (The Louisville Cardinal)
• 'Painful' student test gaps continue in Kentucky schools (The Courier-Journal)
• Achievement gaps linger in Kentucky schools (Daily News)
• Capilouto pledges new dorms and classrooms during investiture speech (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Lexington School's center helps students overcome dyslexia (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK installs Capilouto, who calls for rebuilding aging campus (The Lane Report)
• WKU's Center for Gifted Studies Director Wins Award (WBKO.com)

National:

• States rewrite education rules, with or without Race to the Top (Stateline.org)
• For-profit colleges focus of student loan issue (USA Today)
• Groups Protest Proposed Cuts to Minority-Serving Institutions (ACE)
• It's Not Me. It's You. (Inside Higher Ed)
• Out With Textbooks, in With Laptops for an Indiana School District (The New York Times)