National News

• Automatic access or raised retention (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• First 100 hours of new Congress bring lower expectations for higher ed funding (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)
  
  
• Massachusetts using Web site to help students prepare for college (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Early college plans grow in popularity (Knoxville State News)
  
  
• New bills would prod states to take national view on standards (Education Week)
  
  
• Opinion- End Michigan's racial bias lawlessness (Detroit News)
  
  
• Digging deeper into lender profits (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• In testing for gifted programs, a few knots (New York Times)
  
  
• The Spellings Commission- it's a start (University Business)
  
  
• More children learn more than one language (USA Today)