The IRS diploma database would settle the matter--and make it hard for bad schools to survive.
And bad schools would have to get their act together or face the consequences.
Others suggest that bad schools could be closed, or turned over to the private sector.
As for bad schools, there is little to suggest that a shorter curriculum would make these better.
Unless bad schools are indeed closed, his scheme will be as much good as a blackboard with no chalk.
The thinking is that this will make it less likely that bright students from bad schools will suffer because they underestimate their abilities and therefore fail to think about applying to top universities until it is too late.
At the low end, we learn from NBER Working Paper 7450, "Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government, " published last December, that kids who do poorly in bad schools tend also to do poorly in schools with abundant resources.
With its caste system, and bad state schools, India may be a more unequal society than the numbers alone suggest.
Films such as Waiting for Superman and The Lottery focus on heartstrings stories of students trying desperately to get out of bad public schools into excellent charter schools.
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Many reform opponents cheer loudly to the call for shutting down bad charter schools, but then object to the idea that poorly performing public schools should be shut down.
As his first initiative, he proposed sweeping changes to America's schools, including the annual testing of elementary-school pupils and the use of vouchers to help parents of children in bad public schools to pay for private or religious education.
And just like bad -- or regular schools, they need to be shut down if they're not doing a good job.
Hell, the Big East is in such bad shape these days that schools that were excited to join the conference months ago may now rescind those intentions.
Ms Azabar dislikes the idea of all-Muslim schools, thinking them bad for integration in the community.
According to Cllr Simmonds some of the schools were in such bad condition that it was impacting the quality of education.
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And in 2011, Education Secretary Michael Gove suggested that some schools were hiding pupils' bad behaviour from inspectors.
The internet was the factor most often blamed by academics for the rise in plagiarism, with some claiming schools were allowing students to develop bad habits.
So the private sector, by increasing the total number of places available, can ease the mad scramble for the best schools in the state sector (bureaucrats, by contrast, dislike paying for extra places in popular schools if there are vacancies in bad ones).
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The proportion of pupils educated in schools which are in a poor or bad state fell by more than half over the same period, from 37% of pupils in 2007 to 16% in 2012.
It is hard to build new roads or schools, and far too difficult to fire bad teachers.
The poor performance is also blamed on bad timing, as the film was released just after schools re-opened.
Authorisation and renewal processes for innovative schools need to be robust, so that bad experiments are not prolonged and failures are not ignored.
Even so, most of those attending a big schools conference in Minneapolis in June agreed that more bad charters should close.
Speaking before a conference to mark the 10th birthday of Ofsted, Mr Bell said, while many schools were often in shock when they received a bad inspection, the judgement often acted as a spur to real improvement.
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