National News

• Historically black colleges face declining enrollment (Miami Herald)
  
  
• Schrum: Society, not government, must solve higher education woes (Austin American-Statesman)
  
  
• Spellings back ideas to shake up college (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Black colleges struggle to keep students (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Spellings backs ideas to simplify college choices (CNN.com)
  
  
• States given guidance on online teaching, e-school costs (Education Week)
  
  
• The Spellings plan (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• The clarity gap (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• New 'threads' for computer science (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Virginia ends early decision (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• The elephant in the student aid office (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Who needs Yale or Harvard? (Newsweek)
  
  
• Scrapping early admissions sparks debate (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Editorial- When students are left behind (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• So many grading scales. What's an admissions director to do? (Washington Post)
  
  
• U-Va. ends early decisions, in bid for low-income students (Washington Post)