National News

• High school grades creep up, challenging colleges to tell applicants apart (USA Today)
  
  
• Student-loan sell-off to fund state grants (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Taft toughens Ohio student graduation requirements (Toledo Blade)
  
  
• More moral and practial law schools (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Democrats plan evolves (and narrows) (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• History Ph.D.'s: In and out (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• The changing 'place' of the library (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Giving minority students a push along the path to leadership roles (New York Times)
  
  
• Column- Bad guess on U.S. future (Washington Post)