The Tennessean – Jaime Sarrio

“Tennessee could lose more than $100 million in stimulus money because of a failed legislative effort to allow more students to attend charter schools.”(more)

The Advocate – Jordan Blum

“Higher education could be left at just one-quarter of its current state funding levels in three years, according to a worst-case scenario released Friday by the LSU System.”(more)

Indianapolis Star – Staff Writer

“Purdue University President France Córdova announced Friday that the 2011 incoming freshmen will be required to have completed four years of high school math, instead of the three years currently accepted as a minimum.”(more)

Daily Times – Qazi Asif

“KARACHI: The deadline for input on the National Education Policy is May 31, Saturday, after which the government is supposed to announce the plan. Approval may take a while as the Federal Education Minister, the PML-N’s Ahsan Iqbal, resigned.”(more)

Miami Herald – Laura Morales and Patricia Mazzei

“Miami-Dade high-schoolers made greater gains than their peers statewide on the crucial Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.”(more)

Times of India – Staff Writer

“NEW DELHI: Results of All India Engineering Entrance Examination were announced by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday. The results are available in the CBSE website, www.cbse.nic.in, a release issued by the board said. “(more)

San Francisco Chronicle – Staff Writer

Amazing (and troubling) statistics…(more)

Dallas Morning News – Christy Hoppe

“AUSTIN – A new top 10 percent admissions rule for the University of Texas at Austin is on its way to the governor after a reluctant Senate sponsor literally held her nose and voted for the bill.”(more)

Los Angeles Times – Mitchell Landsberg

“That, it turns out, is just the beginning of the ways in which American Indian Public Charter and its two sibling schools spit in the eye of mainstream education. These small, no-frills, independent public schools in the hardscrabble flats of Oakland sometimes seem like creations of television’s “Colbert Report.” They mock liberal orthodoxy with such zeal that it can seem like a parody.”(more)

The Tennessean – Bob Hamlett

“Home schooling in America has doubled in the past decade. What’s wrong with this picture?”(more)