National News

• States raise bar for high school diploma (Education Week)
  
  
• New battle in the wars over tenure (USA Today)
  
  
• 'Science under siege,' ACLU report attacks Bush administration's "assualt on academic freedom and scientific inquiry" (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Retention threat sways students on tests (Boston Globe)
  
  
• States should create "alternate routes" to becoming a teacher (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• ETS poll finds support for changes to high schools (Education Week)
  
  
• Education department seeks comment on IDEA rules (Education Week)
  
  
• Schools urge race as admissions factor in Seattle (Indiana Courier & Press)
  
  
• Some scholars take slow road to graduation [link no longer available] (L.A. Times)