This has resulted in low achievement levels for students particularly in literacy and numeracy.
The educational prospects for large numbers of U.S. children are put at risk by poverty and other factors associated with low achievement and dropping out.
The report says UK schools have had 35 years of "piecemeal reforms" and the result has been a "gentle upswing in performance", judged by international benchmarks, but also a "long tail of low achievement".
Some Muslims in Bradford say they would prefer their children to go to multi-cultural schools, but that the poor standard of schooling in the city has condemned their children to a cycle of low achievement, unemployment, poverty and crime.
This contrasts with French-style grandstanding that is high on domestic feelgood, but low on achievement.
The problem is global (true), and the "root causes" include low educational achievement (true, just don't mention the teachers unions) and not enough retraining.
Low levels of achievement in turn impact both on the education sector and on the long term future economic development of countries.
The NIAO report also found a "strong correlation between between low levels of academic achievement and free school meal entitlement (an indicator of social deprivation)".
My journey began in the summer of 2010 when I received a letter informing me of the restructuring of Emerson Elementary School as a result of low performance in student achievement.
As a result, school enrolment, retention and achievement rates are particularly low in rural areas and, more specifically, among indigenous people.
Mr. MIKE CASSERLY (The Council Of Great City School): Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a school system and a city whose student achievement was nationally renowned as being extremely low.
Both say without No Child Left Behind the achievement of poor and minority kids would still be a low priority.
To receive the funds, the states had to prove that they were progressing in specific areas including turning around low-performing schools, adopting college- and career-ready standards, and using data systems to support student achievement.
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