National News

• Federal spending increases, but more schools will get less money for low-income students (New York Times)
  
  
• Families hire consultants to gain college admission (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
  
  
• It takes a counselor, not a village (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• The corrosion of ethics in higher education (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Academics or technical training (Casper Star Tribune)
  
  
• University of Colorado offers 'final plan' for tuition (Denver Post)
  
  
• High promises, lagging results; Most charter schools doing worse than urban publics (Cincinatti Enquirer)
  
  
• Education department seeks dismissal of NCLB lawsuit (CNN.com)
  
  
• NEA president says achievement gap to go at top of union's priority list (Education Week)
  
  
• Test seeks to measure students' Web IQ (USA Today)
  
  
• Disabled students law questioned (Detroit News)
  
  
• Teachers union asks for higher salaries (USA Today)