National News - December 1, 2009

• Leave no reader behind (Lexington Hearld-Leader/Brookings Institution)
• Dropout costs priced for 50 major U.S. cities (Education Week)
• The big admissions shift (Inside Higher Ed)
• The price of an enrollment shortfall (Inisde Higher Ed)
• Education Dept. suggests eliminating 'Safe Harbors' on incentive compensation (Stateline.org)
• Student debt rose for 2008 graduates, says state-by-state report (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• In job hunt, college degree can't close rascial gap (The New York Times)
• Plan to merge Black colleges meets with ire (USA Today)
• College students jam council meeting to protest tuition tax (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)