report looking at racial trends with the NAEP scores.

For students aged 9 in math in years 1999-2004 the gap between the black and white students has slowly dropped. Same thing occurs at age 13.

For math at grade four and grade 8 from the years of 2000-2007 the gap between the black and white students has also dropped.

For reading the same thing occurs, but the gap closes in at a much smaller rate.

Grand Rapids News reports on the local community college that is going to test out renting textbooks. 20% of the books they sell you will only have to pay 42.5% of retail to rent for one semester.

The USA Today, AP, and New York Times both report on the Obama plan to give community colleges 12 billion bucks.

The AP reports on some college students trying to finish a college degree one year early to save cash.

The Post Dispatch reports on students going to community college in the summer time.

The Detroit News reports on a new record amount of college applications sent into the University of Michigan. Over 29,000 applications got sent in.

The Indy Star has an article out on the tuition increase at Purdue university.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on students lured back into college in the summer to do research.

on Patrick Bassett who says students must prepare for risk-taking.

on the education chief urging the American Federation of Teachers to push for education reform.

that the local school district may sue in order to keep Robert Bobb having academic control of the school district.

They also report that Michigan Merit Exam scores out out and more 11th graders are scoring better on the writing and math portion of the exam.

on high schools in the state getting 2 million plus for tech careers.

They also report on most of the teachers they wound up laying off getting rehired due to federal stimulus money and regular teacher turnovers.