Kentucky News - January 3, 2013

State:

• Rankings of graduation rates reflect poorly on Kentucky, Indiana (Business First of Louisville)
• A legislative perspective (Floyd County Times)
• Ky. Voices: Guarantee high-quality curriculum to all students (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Editorial | Kids Count but not in school attendance (The Courier-Journal)
• Kristine Shiraki | Common Core standards boon to Hoosier schools (The Courier-Journal)
• Officials expect merger of troubled Monticello school district with county system (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Students make University of Kentucky a laboratory for training service dogs (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Ohio college plan left out the faculty (Cincinnati.com)
• Mid-Continent graduates more than 360 (The Paducah Sun)
• Gov. Steve Beshear to deliver annual State of Commonwealth Address in early February (The Republic)
• A New Year's resolution for Kentucky and some Ky. politicos to watch in 2013 (cnl2)

National:

• Harvard Law to Offer Not Quite a MOOC (Inside Higher Ed)
• Conditionally Yours (Inside Higher Ed)
• State School Funds On Trial, Again (Pew States)
• College Education Is Expected to Remain a High Priority for States (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• State Supreme Court: Legislature failing at funding of education (Seattle Times)