Embracing the three E’s
January 25th, 2012Education, employment and the economy
by Jane S. Shropshire, Lexington, KY – Dr. Terry Holliday, commissioner of education for the state of Kentucky, blogged in early December, ” … education drives employment, and employment drives the economy. The future of Kentucky depends heavily on our ability to improve the educational attainment and outcomes for ALL Kentucky children.”
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Kentucky education – from 30,000 feet
November 22nd, 2011by Jane S. Shropshire
Frankfort, Ky. – Virginia B. Edwards, publisher of Education Week, editor of Edweek.org and president of Editorial Projects in Education, provided a national journalistic perspective on 21st century elementary and secondary education issues at the Prichard Committee’s Fall Meeting. Held at the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort on November 18th, the meeting celebrated successful initiatives and fostered priority-setting for Committee members, setting the stage for the academic year’s endeavors.
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College scholarships: Show them the money
November 15th, 2011by Jane S. Shropshire, Lexington, KY – Imagine that you are a college admission dean charged with enrolling a freshman class. Your goals are attracting a certain number of students, achieving targets for quality measures such as GPA and ACT, factoring in diversity, and doing all of this within a prescribed budget.
Now imagine that you’re a hiring official for a large company. Certain jobs require special skills or characteristics, and the candidates you want may have plenty of other choices. You, too, have targets to meet and a budget to consider.
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A Framework for Life
September 16th, 2011by Jane S. Shropshire
Lexington, KY – University of Kentucky Provost Kumble Subbaswamy is visibly excited about the new Core Curriculum approved by the faculty and now being implemented. So excited, in fact, that he was shouting in the library during an opening ceremony for the new curriculum. In all fairness, the shouting was due to a temporary power outage that left him without a microphone. But he showed himself as resourceful as he hopes his students will be.
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