National News

• Justices to weigh school diversity (USA Today)
  
  
• Should government take a yardstick to colleges? (USA Today)
  
  
• As math scores lag, a new push for the basics (New York Times)
  
  
• Gates: U.S. education system needs work (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Angst over admissions (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• New challenge to affirmative action (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Putting the 'lame' in lame duck session (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• More science, less social science (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• College gets lowdown on how students do (USA Today)
  
  
• Column- Just whose idea was all this testing? (Washington Post)