Moreover, it would mean abandoning any hope of measuring even genuine improvements in educational standards.
For this reason, Oxfam wants debt relief to be strictly conditional on improved educational standards.
The biggest piece of international research on educational standards, involving schools in 41 countries, was published recently.
Connecticut has the highest educational standards in the country, thanks largely to stringent testing (and higher salaries) for teachers.
Church schools in the poorest areas have higher educational standards than state schools.
In a letter published in the Independent newspaper, 100 experts said the new curriculum in England would "severely erode educational standards".
It is very difficult to make a positive impact to educational standards both in the early years and later in school.
Research on specialist schools tends to confirm that they are improving pupils' educational standards at a faster rate than ordinary comprehensives.
Mr Roberts called for details on how the fund will be monitored to ensure that it is used to improve educational standards.
He is also tasked with addressing crime, corruption and falling educational standards.
But the exterior sheen conceals a growing sense of anomie, compounded by swelling unemployment and material expectations fed by rising educational standards.
Vouchers have become popular because parents think they improve educational standards.
Brokers, money managers and consultants have no minimal educational standards.
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"Therefore the council's plans to support rapid improvement in educational standards and life chances as a result, as part of the Education Improvement Partnership, remain very much on track, " it added.
The MPs said state schools also had a role to play in widening access - partly in raising awareness, but also in raising educational standards nearer to those in independent schools.
The council is working with the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), which has been appointed to lead the council's Raising The Bar commission on educational standards.
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Mr Jones also answered questions on a variety of topics such as steps the Welsh government is taking to ensure that Wales will not suffer another recession, raising educational standards and recycling targets.
Thus, recognising that family wellbeing and development directly correlates with the educational standards of women, PEPE initiated the Alternative Community Education Programme (ACEP) in an effort to combat illiteracy using traditional knowledge systems as the principal basis of learning.
What I do think is that the issue of how you educate should be judged very much on standards, which is why I published a report last week into educational standards in Kent where they do have a selective system - and you know the government doesn't support selective systems.
Following a sharp decline in educational opportunities, standards and literacy rates during the transition, the Mongolian government has, with support from international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), implemented major policies to restructure and rehabilitate the education system.
The American educational establishment's weakness for airy-fairy notions about the evils of standards and competition is particularly damaging to poor children who have few educational resources of their own to fall back on.
Unfortunately, standards do not address the underlying educational inequities and problems of accountability.
Recognizing that workplace standards for harassment were inappropriate for educational institutions, in Davis the court offered a clear, narrow, workable definition of harassment as a targeted pattern of serious and ongoing discriminatory behavior.
As a result of lottery lolly the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Scotland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and many others have had a makeover, bringing them up to modern standards in terms of access, educational facilities, exhibition space and more.
Given the fact that the United States has a relatively decentralized educational system, it comes as no surprise that standards have emerged as much from the bottom up as from the top down.
Perhaps more important than an educational standard may be a general agreement on what constitutes professional standards of behaviour.
The emergence of standards-based reform reflects a number of significant educational trends.
Currently there are no internationally accepted standards for guidance counsellors but the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG) is in the process of establishing a committee to draft such a standard.
Another set of educational reforms collapsed because a majority of academics refused to raise teaching standards and submit themselves to peer reviews.
Another side effect of the standards movement in the United States has been greater attention to educational achievement levels in other countries.
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