National News

• Lessons in character education (Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Community Colleges get new instruction on teaching basic skills (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Diagnosing why some students do not succeed (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• In these classrooms, a G.E.D. is only a start (The New York Times)
  
  
• University furloughs (Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• More colleges cater to transfers (USA Today)