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The Beachcomber

Assessing the Assessments

Assessing the Assessments

Beachwood students completed computerized end-of-course exams last month. The exams, designed by the American Institutes of Research (AIR), assess student skills across grade levels. In high school,...

Bracing For More Rigorous Exams

Bracing For More Rigorous Exams

Reid Gobieski, with additional reporting by the Beachcomber staff December 18, 2014

The Ohio Department of Education will replace the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) with a series of new computerized exams that most BHS students will take by the end of the 2015-16 school year. These tests...

Common Core Curriculum Brings New Expectations For Students and Teachers

Common Core Curriculum Brings New Expectations For Students and Teachers

Dalia Zullig, Staff Writer December 8, 2013

BHS students have noticed dramatic curriculum changes this fall, and are likely to see more in the next few years. Ohio is one of the 45 states and four US territories adopting the Common Core Curriculum,...

Education is Not a Race

Education is Not a Race

Beachcomber Staff November 1, 2013

As the first quarter comes to a close, students are seeing the full effects of new educational policies. The new Common Core curriculum, already being implemented in math classes, is designed to make classes...

Math Department Implements New Curriculum to Align With Common Core

Math Department Implements New Curriculum to Align With Common Core

Jon Shapiro, Staff Writer October 19, 2013

When classes started this fall, students were quick to recognize changes to the math curriculum in honors and college preparatory algebra I, II and geometry courses. In order to explain the changes to...

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