National News

• Study: Many college students over their heads in debt (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Schools don't do enough to help kids get into 4-year colleges, study says (Chicagotribune.com)
  
  
• 11 states poised to pilot national test for seniors (Education Week)
  
  
• State funds to target learning gap (Rocky Mountain News)

• A student loan credit crunch — but for whom? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Clarion call for more NIH funding (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• No ban on home schooling (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Georgia brawl over single-sex school plan (Stateline.org/The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Principal sees injustice, and picks a fight with it (The New York Times)
  
  
• Students feel less safe on campus (ABC News)