National News

• Aiming for college, electoral at least (U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Lafayette becomes latest college to offer more aid to students (ACE/The Morning Call)
  
  
• State hopes test will point the route to college (ECS/OregonLive.com)
  
  
• Private colleges proliferating, worldwide (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Intel, Microsoft give $20-million to universities to push computing limits (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• U.S. eases ‘No Child’ law as applied to some states (The New York Times)