Kentucky News - December 4, 2012

State:

• Reader Letter | Better K-12 schools helping postsecondary efforts (The Courier-Journal)
• U of L President Jim Ramsey says early tip led to ACC push (The Courier-Journal)
• Takeover recommended for Breathitt schools (Bowling Green Daily News)
• After UK researcher's suspension, his boss wrote him a recommendation letter (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• EKU student arrested after note prompts evacuation (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Merlene Davis: Community colleges need to be more hands-on (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Note on refrigerator in EKU dorm prompted bomb scare and arrest (The Richmond Register)
• UK takes academic supercomputing to next level (The Lane Report)
• Kentucky State University To Hold Fall Commencement (Kentucky State University)
• UK upgrading technology (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Accelerator offers support for student ventures (WXIX)
• Bellarmine to bestow honorary degrees on Armstrong, Ray (The Courier-Journal)

National:

• A Better Way to Prepare Teachers (Inside Higher Ed)
• Kitzhaber, consolidating power over all things education, proposes new Department of Post-Secondary Education (Oregon Live)
• Testing Group Scales Back Performance Items (Education Week)