National News

• Congress debates FY 2009 budget this week (American Council on Education)
  
  
• Critics hope to teach unions a lesson (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• These aren't your parents' schools (chicagotribune.com)
  
  
• Utah students hide guns, head to class (CNN.com)
  
  
• Promising path on remediation (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Gen ed reform — supersized (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Mixed signals in California - A mismatch between high schools and community colleges (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
  
  
• Georgia, Tennessee recognized for work on high school graduation requirements (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
  
  
• Columbia University to offer financial aid to more students (The New York Times)
  
  
• Math suggests college frenzy will soon ease (The New York Times)
  
  
• Population shift sends universities scrambling (washingtonpost.com)
  
  
• Top law schools make curriculum more practical (USA Today)