How can we say with certainty that any other interpersonal goals would not have trumped academic ones in a head-to-head comparison?

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Bigger ones have commercial arms, media departments, aggressive head-hunting methods and a wide array of private fund-raising and investment strategies.

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In their version, parental ballots could be held and local-government officials would have to sack head teachers or hand schools over to be run by more successful ones, if that was what parents said they wanted.

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The good news is that Dev units have been shipping to the roughly 600 who signed up, with the remaining ones set to head out within a week.

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