National News

• Are students getting SMART? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Democrats outline education agenda priorities (CNN.com)
  
  
• Education goals proving elusive (The State)
  
  
• Study questions role math, science scores plan in nations' GDPs (Education Week)
  
  
• Survey: College endowments top 10 percent returns (Boston Globe)
  
  
• The rich getter richer- again (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Where the social science jobs are (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• 'B' grades for diversity in college sports (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Report: Achievement gap still wide (Stateline.org)
  
  
• Stable revenues, but declining optimism (Stateline.org)
  
  
• More getting a key to A&M (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• High schools reach higher, score better (Washington Post)