National News

• Departments of Commerce and state expand their partnership to promote U.S. higher education abroad (ACE Higher Education)
  
  
• Report: States should improve teacher evaluation policies (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Rell vetoes in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant kids (Boston Globe)
  
  
• A legally binding environmental pledge (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• St. Andrews faces accreditation loss (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Report: Georgia needs better oversight of teacher preparation (Macon Press)
  
  
• New leader seen as hope for troubled FAMU (Miami Herald)
  
  
• State budget is ready for approval (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  
  
• Universities to use millions to help low-income residents (Greenvill News)
  
  
• Lawmakers say state failing to educate youth offenders (Quad-City TImes)
  
  
• Librarians: We're still vital in the digital age (USA Today)
  
  
• Blacks in Fairfax, Montgomery out do U.S. peers in AP (Washington Post)