on Universities in the state and what program they are using in order to help get more students to make it to their sophomore year.

on schools in the New Orleans area.

to give the Palo-Alto school system 800,000 to help fund the Mandarin immersion program.

textbook prices is out. It looks at two different bills that the Gov. can sign. One that is being supported by the California Public Interest Research Group which faculty would get information on all textbooks in a subject area, how long the book is going to in uses, changes in thew new edition, and to have info online. The other bill is supported by the Assn. of American Publishers and that one wants publishers to list changes from previous editions, online or printed price lists, and campus bookstores will have to list retail pricing polices.

I think both of them need to be passed in order to get as many rules in place to help lower the cost of textbooks for college students.

in the amount of students winding up with a computer science degree. In 1985 it was 37%, now in 2005 is 22%.

The Gannett News service has an interview up with this person and what changes that he would like to make to the No Child Left Behind Bill.