Earlier this decade, he worked closely with Republican President George W. Bush to raise primary and secondary academic standards.
The Department for Education said that where English teaching was concerned, the aim was to ensure that pupils left primary school with high standards of literacy.
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The minister emphasised the importance of improving numeracy and literacy standards at primary schools so pupils are on a level playing field when they reach secondary school.
Improving the teaching of reading in primary schools and raising behaviour standards would help improve the situation, he said.
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Statistics Commission, Report No 23: Measuring Standards in English Primary Schools.
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Despite all this, primary health care remains good, by the standards of the region.
"Aesthetic standards have become one of the primary determinants of which species are deemed worthy for conservation and this has to be looked at, " he said.
International research tends to find that by the time British children leave primary school they are reading well by international standards, but read less often for fun than those elsewhere.
Estyn said that while Monmouthshire council was above the average for Wales and among the best in Wales in primary schools, it was falling short of the standards that could be reached.
Ms Gilbert said the key to raising standards was making sure children could read properly by the time they left primary school.
One of the two primary causes of the financial crisis was overregulation, primarily forcing banks to trash traditional lending standards, and make ultimately trillions in subprime and other non-prime loans, for the social goal of promoting home ownership among the disadvantaged.
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The government believes the changes are needed to treat primary teachers as "modern 21st century professionals" and give them the tools to raise pupil standards even further.
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And in what will be a papacy guided by conservative moral standards on most issues, his past suggests that the fight against poverty will take a primary role.
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) decided care should be concentrated at fewer, larger sites to improve standards and chose units at Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Southampton and two London centres.
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Four hundred primary schools in England deemed to be the weakest are to be turned into academies in a bid to drive up standards, the prime minister has announced.
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