Category: Opinion
Op-ed: Kentucky effort to improve education is focus of national conference
Continuing two decades of leadership in education reform, the General Assembly enacted a bipartisan legislative initiative in 2009 known as Senate Bill 1. It brought a new focus on what students actually learn, and aligned that learning to what colleges and employers expect high school graduates to know in order to be successful.
New era begins for state’s schools
This year’s back-to-school season marks the beginning of a new era for Kentucky’s public education system that offers great promise for moving our state forward.
Reform the NCAA Rulebook
Published in InsideHigher Ed, Aug. 4, 20011. by Robert L. King I could not let University of Kentucky Basketball Coach John Calipari’s recent suggestion about abandoning the National Collegiate Athletic Association and creating a new structure for Division I athletics …
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“I know they can, even when they think they can’t.” That line, on a nationally broadcast television ad, is spoken by Melody Stacy, a Kentucky teacher, who is part of a group of inspiring educators demonstrating that all students can learn and perform at very high levels in math and science. The students featured in the ad are right here in Kentucky.
