By Katy Murphy Last school year, about 60 percent of Oakland 10th-graders passed the math or the English portion of the California High School Exit Exam -- or both -- on their first try, according to results released Tuesday by the state education department.

By Jennifer Smith Richards, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 27--Metro High School was built on a basic principle: Good enough isn't good enough. Now it has some proof that it's living up to that.

By Jennifer Smith Richards, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jun. 22--Mohamed Moallin stands at the chalkboard and, in a thick accent, says words such as phenotypes and heterozygous to a roomful of students who are still learning to speak English.

By Jennifer Smith Richards, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jun. 18--Central Ohio sophomores made strides in two of the five subjects on the Ohio Graduation Test this spring, but they faltered on writing, the section long regarded as the easiest.

By John Higgins, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio May 28--Five percent of Akron Public Schools' senior class, or 78 students, have failed one or more of the five Ohio Graduation Tests and will not cross the stage at graduation ceremonies.