"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) Education Secretary Outlines Obama Education Agenda: In Appearance Before House Committee, Duncan Stresses Reform Component of Stimulus Bill, Need to Improve High Schools; (2) "A Critical Mission": SREB [Southern Regional Education Board] Report Urges States to Develop Comprehensive Adolescent Literacy Policies that Can Improve Reading and Writing in Secondary Schools; (3) "State Actions to Improve Adolescent Literacy": NASBE [National Association of State Boards of Education] Report Says that Addressing the "Pervasive" Low Level of Adolescent Literacy Will Take a Concerted Statewide Policy and School Improvement Effort; and (4) "Lost Opportunity": New Report Finds that Minority and Low-Income Students Have Only Half the Opportunity to Learn in the Nation's Public Schools as Their White Peers. (Contains 2 footnotes.)