National News

• Is Higher Ed Act renewal dead? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Opinion- Dumbing down a college education (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Education quandry: curb dropouts (Stateline.org)
  
  
• Immigration tuition bill defeated in Massachusetts (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Gov. Bush to tackle minority student declines in Florida, seek big increase in financial aid (The Herald-Tribune)
  
  
• Houston to tie teacher pay to test scores (CNN.com)
  
  
• Study: Surprising number of Connecticut students avoid college (The Hartford Courant)
  
  
• College counseling in a crunch (USA Today)