"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Graduation for All, A Right and a Responsibility: National Campaign to Focus on Increasing High School Graduation Rates; (2) Making a Good Education Widely Available: Fattah and Frost Say There Has Been Too Little Change in Fifty Years Since "Brown v. Board"; (3) Kerry Offers Details on Education Agenda: Plan Focuses on Graduation Rates and Highly Qualified Teachers; (4) Transforming High Schools: New Study Finds Quality of Instruction the Key to Success; (5) Pushed Out or Pulled Up?: New Manhattan Institute Report Argues Exit Exams Do Not Affect Graduation Rates; and (6) Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement in Eighth-Grade Mathematics: Eighth-Grade Students Score Higher under the Tutelage of Well-Qualified Teachers.