National News

• Edging toward acceptability (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Higher education community responds to revamped HEA legislation (American Council on Education News)
  
  
• House passes education bill on party lines (New York Times)
  
  
• U.S. may cut GEAR-UP achievement program (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Dropping a bomb on accreditation (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Harvard expands low- and middle-income financial aid program (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Scoring errors compound SAT-takers' stress (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Unusual lesson plan at Carleton (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Diversity debate at Lehigh (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Commentary- The folly of federal policy (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• College admission angst finds a forum on Web (New York Times)
  
  
• Blacks turn to Internet highway, and digital divide starts to close (New York Times)
  
  
• Editoral- Spence: Getting America back to the top of its game (The Austin American-Statesman)
  
  
• Student protests grow, spread to MD (Washington Post)