National News

• Students cram to beat July 1 loan deadline (Indianapolis Star)
  
  
• Experts: Graduation rates low, falling in the south (Education Week)
  
  
• Commentary: The educational consequences of accessibility (The Oregonian)
  
  
• Senate passes bill to finance cultural endowments (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Not a consensus; Major faculty union objects to statement issued by college groups to respond to Horowitz (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Report criticizes lack of data on for-profit students (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Switching sides, U.S. backs district in IDEA case before Supreme Court (Education Week)
  
  
• Test scores are up. So why isn't everybody cheering? (New York Times)
  
  
• American Indian students prep for college, Harvard program provides crash course in admissions process (CNN.com)
  
  
• Honors programs raise questions, provide answers (Community College Week)