The Ohio legislature voted this summer to change graduation requirements so that the class of 2023 and beyond will not have to pass as many AIR tests. According to Beachwood’s Director of  Curriculum...

With second semester beginning, juniors are preparing to take the ACT and SAT exams. Here are some tips to help prepare. Format: Both exams test topics that students have learned through core classes...

Next week all freshmen and sophomores as well as some juniors and seniors will take the Ohio's end-of-course exams produced by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The tests will cover Language...

On March 6, Superintendent Dr. Richard Markwardt wrote an open letter to the Beachwood community urging 10th-12th grade BHS students to take the new state-mandated American government exam not required...

This spring, the more rigorous PARCC and AIR tests have replaced the OGTs to measure student, teacher and district performance with new computer-based assessments. Some students are opposed to standardized...

Conflicting messages from policy makers caused clashes in early March between students and administrators over new state social studies tests. Many upperclassmen in the US government class attempted...

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...

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...

By mandating new state tests that are projected to have lower passing rates than the current OGTs, Ohio politicians certainly make it seem as if they are cracking the whip on our education system....

The Ohio Dept. of Education will replace the OGTs with 10 new tests in the 2014-2015 school year. These tests will be designed to assess the new Common Core Curriculum and to more comprehensively measure...

I hear BHS students complain a lot. They don’t like school for a lot of reasons: the tardy policy, the amount of homework assigned and the fairness of grading. Having attended school in Korea as well...