National News

• America's best colleges 2007 (U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Recount helps one university rise in the rankings (CNN.com)
  
  
• College costs: Up, up and away (CNN.com)
  
  
• Rising college fees will cost us in time (USA Today)
  
  
• New data shake up college list (Miami Herald)
  
  
• Governor's office working on plan to cap tuition increases (The Missoulian)
  
  
• Princeton named top university in U.S. News rankings (CNN.com)
  
  
• Regulatory activism (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Paying for diversity (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Science: Lost in space (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Rough start for effort to remake faltering New Orleans schools (New York Times)
  
  
• Most states have budget surpluses (Washington Post)
  
  
• College rankings could use an upgrade (NPR audio clip)
  
  
• Ivy rankings? Rah, rah, sis-boom-blah (Washington Post)
  
  
• Butterflies abound as first-year teachers await day one (Washington Post)