National News

• A break from tuition anxiety (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• More time in class equals better math skills (USA Today)
  
  
• State can't measure schools with individual scores (Missoulian)
  
  
• Colleges set up charters as pipeline for students (Sacramento Bee)
  
  
• AZ schools' math requirement hiked (Arizona Daily Star)
  
  
• Texas aims to close students' skill gap (Houston Chronicle)

• Tuition and aid shake-up (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Most parents of middle-school students plan too little for college, survey finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Candidates split on cutting higher education costs (USA Today)