National News

• Dodd's higher education plan includes free community college (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Fewer Alabama schools meet improvement goals _ 241 fall short (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Benefits of early-childhood program flow into adulthood, study finds (Education Week)
  
  
• Affirming professors’ role or denigrating it? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Star athlete, you’re admitted. Er, never mind (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Judge won't block state's course rules for charter schools (Tucson Region)
  
  
• Auburn U. settles with professor who handed out easy grades to athletes (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Some wonder if cash for good test scores is the wrong kind of lesson (The New York Times)
  
  
• Bridge rescuer offered scholarship (Washington Post)