National News

• A pleasant budget surprise (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Bush ready to sign off on spending bill (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Opinion- Don't forget the registrar (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Old SATs crop up again-- but it's not error by test-owners (CNN.com)
  
  
• Accord on increasing Pell grants (New York Times)
  
  
• Lost opportunity in Russia (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Accountability and comparability (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Lake Wobegon, U.S.A.- where all the children are above average (Stateline.org)
  
  
• More Michigan high school grads head to community colleges (mlive.com)
  
  
• College class turns to virtual world (Edmonton Journal)
  
  
• How can collegians shoulder their debt? (USA Today)
  
  
• College scholarships for all no myth in El Dorado (Washington Post)