Article: Gift of Tongues: Passing the Ohio Mathematics Graduation Test.

In April, 2008, the Education Research Center released its study, Cities in Crises: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation. The report ranks the graduation rates for the principal school districts serving the nation's 50 largest cities. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District ranks 48th with a 34.1 graduation rate in 2003-2004. (1) While the District's CEO, Dr. Eugene Sanders disputes this statistic (2) and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is calling for federal rules to use a standard measure for calculating graduation rates (3), the crises is an American tragedy. Ohio students are required to pass the Ohio Graduation Tests [OGT] in Writing, ...

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