Parenting | Basking Ridge: Drawing the Line on Drug Testing. Is it in a student’s best interest to be subject to drug testing in school, or is the policy an invasion of privacy?

Your Money: Colleges Are Not Going Hungry, but Are in Need. Against the real likelihood of financial doom for so many people, what precisely do we owe our alma maters at a time like this?

Tuition Jump in Florida Wins Backing of Governor. Gov. Charlie Crist urged the Legislature to allow tuition increases at the state’s public universities to blunt the impact of budget cuts.

Early-Decision Applications Are Up at Colleges, in Spite of the Economy. Some need-blind colleges said that they had been publicizing their generous financial aid packages, and that it seemed to be paying off.

Obamas Pick Sidwell School, Ending a Washington Guessing Game. Malia and Sasha Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School, the pricey and prestigious academy that has educated generations of Washington’s elite.

Rolle Wins Rhodes Scholarship. Florida State safety Myron Rolle is the first major-college football player of his generation to win what is considered the world’s most prestigious postgraduate academic scholarship.

High School Dances Shine Just a Little Less Brightly. From affluent neighborhoods to blue-collar ones, the homecoming dance is a more modest affair this year.

Iowa City Journal: Chain of Grief for a Flagship University. Famous as a literary powerhouse, the University of Iowa has been the gloomy setting of more trouble and tragedy lately than could fit in a single book.

Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay. After The Chronicle of Higher Education published its survey of university presidents’ pay, several presidents said that they would give back part of their pay or forgo their raises.

Kiyoshi Ito, 93, Mathematician Who Described Random Motion, Dies. Mr. Ito’s innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology.

Show Winner, Now Bankrupt, Will Keep Vow. Kathy Cox, the Georgia state schools superintendent who won $1 million on a game show, filed for bankruptcy, but plans to fulfill her pledge to donate her winnings to local schools.

Accused Pediatrician Is Leaving Institute. Dr. Melvin D. Levine, who is facing lawsuits accusing him of molesting boys, has resigned from All Kinds of Minds, which he founded to train teachers to help children with learning disabilities.

Update: Random Test Rejected for Drugs. There will be no drug testing of students at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.

Music: Suffolk Youth Orchestra Joins the Field. Classical ensembles for school-age performers offer students — some of whom do not have orchestras at their schools — more opportunities to play.

Good Deeds: The Backlash. Schools have trimmed community service hours for high school students, hoping they will aim for quality, not quantity.

Beyond the Ivied Halls, Endowments Suffer. Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets.

Private Schools Say They’re Thriving in Downturn. In letters and meetings, elite schools in New York say applications and donations remain strong.

Turning Around the Idea of Student Loans. In raising money and investing it with a nonprofit lending institution, the Meadows School in Las Vegas is by all accounts the first high school to operate a microbank.

Global Classrooms: Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required). More American students are heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their full degree program.