"We felt there was a reasonable probability that the trial would be successful, so we were a bit surprised that neither the primary or secondary outcomes were met, " said Bret Holley, an analyst at Oppenheimer.
Importantly, they find that the primary way that competition effects outcomes is by improving the performance of the nearby public schools, and not by outperforming the public schools.
For all that spending on schools, both secondary and primary, has shot up, outcomes on the younger front are discouraging too.
By introduction a banding system in Wales, the government intends to group secondary and primary schools into bands reflecting their outcomes and progress.
The IEA is probably best known for its Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an international large-scale assessment of learning outcomes (ILSA) for primary school learners in science and mathematics, as well as for PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study).
So I do no believe we can politically sustain the path we have been on, watching as market outcomes, what folks in this room call primary distribution income, grow increasingly unequal and hope to address these vast inequities through tax policies and transfer that politically cannot be sustained, in my view.
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Most commonly collected data are limited to health outcomes for children ages 0-3 and pre-primary and primary education indicators for older children.
These two outcomes largely countered a broad base of production gains across the primary sector.
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Despite significant progress towards universal primary education and gender parity, the overall quality of education and learning outcomes are weak.
ACOs are a combination of primary care, specialists and hospitals tied to a defined population, accountable for the quality, outcomes and cost of health care received by that population.
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