National News

• Online colleges receive a boost from Congress (New York Times)
  
  
• Report: Keep focus on reading skills (USA Today)
  
  
• Borrowed brains could lead the class (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Spiritual, but not in the classroom (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Lessons from another state's high-stakes test (Seattle Times)
  
  
• Study: Reading key to college success (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Open to open source (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• N.J. primed to buck trend of falling education levels (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Program assists at-risk college students (Seattle Times)