National News

• Parents getting more involved in kids' college life (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Education Department expands tutoring experiments (CNN.com)
  
  
• U.S. to help states with testing of English-learners (Education Week)
  
  
• U.S. to expand pilots offering flexibility on NCLB (Education Week)
  
  
• Rallying behind open access (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Calling Melvil Dewey (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Dream deferred (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Intro to study abroad (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Mastering engineering (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• An unfailing belief in the power of teaching (New York Times)
  
  
• College students learn from a job of hard knocks (USA Today)
  
  
• Stuff 101 (Washington Post)