National News

• Ohio is rich in board-certified teachers, but few work in districts that need the most help (The Columbus Dispatch)
  
  
• School numbers game masks ills (Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Bills target rising college textbook prices (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• National report card shows big gains in math (Stateline.org)
  
  
• Why diversity for diversity's sake won't work (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Math scores rise, but reading is mixed (The New York Times)
  
  
• Grade-schoolers raise math, reading scores (USA Today)