Dollars and degrees
Kentucky students struggle to overcome soaring cost of college
Lofty goals have been set in Louisville recently for getting more high school students into college.
Summer learning
Thousands of JCPS students partake in the fight to stop vacation brain-drain
In the Woolridge household, the roughly 70 days between the last and first day of school doesn’t deflate into a seasonal pile of idle time.
Investors of the Lost Ark
Enthusiasm for Ark Encounter tempered by news of fundraising troubles, construction delays
After Daniel Phelps — president of the Kentucky Paleontology Society — stops to admire a display of meteorites, a polite 13-year-old volunteer guide inside the Creation Museum shares th
No easy fix
A work group is charged with curbing violence in west Louisville. Now what?
On the evening of June 18, a group of 37 handpicked community leaders — from activists to pastors to judges — piled into Metro Hall.
The main brain
Iroquois High band thrives under director Linda Pulley
Nathan Herl, 15, is a talented musician who’d like to study music at the University of Louisville.
Waiver worries
Does Kentucky’s new education accountability model set the bar too low, potentially leaving struggling students behind?
In early February, with the nod from President Barack Obama, Kentucky and nine other states broke free from an unpopular law often reduced to its notorious four letters — NCLB.
Earth to the GOP
As Republican hostility toward environmental regulations escalates, so does the importance of the 2012 election
In one of the infamous debate moments of the Republican presidential primary season, Texas Gov.
The Sisters
The lives of American nuns: What they do. Why the scrutiny?
For 12 years, she’s sat in a windowless office, the door propped open.
