"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) "Nation's Report Card": Reading Scores Flat for Fourth Graders; Eighth Graders Improve by One Point; (2) Moving on Up: Delaware and Tennessee Win First Phase of the Race to the Top Competition; (3) "MetLife Survey of the American Teacher": Only Half of Teachers Think Their Students Will Attend a Two- or Four-Year College after High School; (4) "Beating the Odds": New Report Finds that Urban School Districts Are Improving Student Outcomes but Still Trailing State Averages; (5) Are Test Scores Primarily Static? Turning around a Failing School Is "Extremely Difficult" but Not Impossible, According to New Report; and (6) Report Examines Connection between Health and High School Dropouts. (Contains 1 footnote.)