National News

• Key NCLB-Renewal bills withheld until fall (Education Week)
  
  
• U.S. poised to sit out TIMSS test (Education Week)
  
  
• Certain degrees now cost more at public universities (New York Times)
  
  
• Want to be good at science? Math is key (San Francisco Gate)
  
  
• Minn. student scores stay mostly steady in reading, math (Brainer Dispatch)
  
  
• Online schools' surpluses criticized (The Patriot-News)
  
  
• Nontraditional path to educational certificates paying off for many Utahns (The Salt Lake Tribune)
  
  
• UW given nod to consider race in students' applications (Star Tribune)
  
  
• Stemming the summer slide (Washington Post)