National News

• State-required preparation increases GED pass rates (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• ANGEL Learning welcomes new higher education clients to ANGEL community (angellearning.com)
  
  
• Educators address state's vast reading gap (Courant.com)

• Program takes aim at teacher shortage (LJWorld.com)
  
  
• Schools leave dollars behind (OregonLive.com)

• Reforming the ‘formation of scholars’ (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Montgomery hits a testing milestone for black students (Washington Post)
  
  
• New grants seek to improve state systems (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Edwards taps his working-class childhood to focus on issues of opportunity and equality (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

• Most states' degree rates are too low, report says (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• U.S. students do worse in science and math (USA Today)
  
  
• Special-needs kids need extra special touch (USA Today)