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Kentucky Non-Profit Receives Launch Assignment from NASA
Technology and Innovation
Feb 02, 2010
Source: Office of the Governor( January 27, 2010 )
Governor Steve Beshear announced that Kentucky Space has received the official launch assignment from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its first satellite, KySat-1 on the Glory mission set to launch in November 2010. Kentucky Space is a nonprofit enterprise involved in designing and developing entrepreneurial and educational space platforms. It is a consortium involving the combined resources and capacity of the University of Kentucky, Morehead State University, University of Louisville, Western Kentucky University, Murray State University, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, The Kentucky Space Grant Consortium, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and Belcan. The managing partner and founder of the Kentucky Space consortium is the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation. This week, NASA announced that it will launch small research satellites for several universities as part of the agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNA, mission. The satellites are manifested as an auxiliary payload on the Taurus XL launch vehicle for NASA's Glory mission, planned for liftoff in late November.
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What America Makes Best
Globalization
Feb 02, 2010
Source: Barron’s( November 9, 2009 )
As Americans were trying to shake off the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the consulting firm IHS/Global Insight recently delivered a bit of humbling news: China will surpass the United States as the world's leader in manufacturing by 2015. Critics of U.S. trade policy trumpeted the news as another sign that we are losing an economic war to China. But China's emergence as the world's top manufacturer is nothing to worry about. Manufacturing long ago ceased to be the chief benchmark of economic might and success. It is time we adjusted our economic and political thinking and understanding Americans will not stop making things. The IHS/Global Insight study projects that America's manufacturing, as measured in value-added terms, or the value of goods manufactured after subtracting the cost of imported inputs, will resume its growth after the recession and reach new highs.
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Video Discussion of State Budget Crisis Available
Community & Quality of Life
Feb 02, 2010
Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts( January 13, 2010 )
Susan Urahn, Managing Director of the Pew Center on the States, appeared on "PBS Newshour" to discuss the difficulties that many states are having in closing their budget gaps. She also covers the issues that states will face in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 as federal stimulus money disappears. View the entire video State Budgets Collapsing Under Poor Economy on the "PBS Newshour" Web site.
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Mind the Gaps
Workforce
Feb 02, 2010
Source: PEN Weekly NewsBlast( January 22, 2010 )
The most common way of measuring the achievement gap in a given school, district, or area is by simple subtraction: The performance of white students minus the performance of African-American students equals the gap. A new brief from the Education Trust suggests this formulation is misleading, and offers four ways to gain a more sophisticated, comprehensive, and accurate picture. Meaningful differences between states-as well as between districts and schools-emerge when assessing performance in these ways, and should be considered when evaluating how much state and local leaders have advanced academic equity to date, as well as their readiness to make additional progress.
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