National News - March 1, 2010

• Duncan defends cost and direction of education budget to Congress (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Obama to recognize historically black colleges (Seattle Times Newspaper)
• Plan gives high-school students a jump on college (The Arizona Republic)
• More high-schoolers reinvent or skip their senior year (USA Today)
• The 'prior learning' edge (Inside Higher Ed)
• In middle school, charting their course to college and beyond (The New York Times)
• Universities push to get all students counted in 2010 Census, with federal funding at stake (Chicago Tribune)