More are to open, bringing their number to 400, but they will have to follow the national curriculum (although innovation in teaching was an aim of the programme).

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Sesame Street was started in November 1969 with the aim of teaching children numbers and words using cartoons and puppets.

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The booklets aim to improve teaching by "shifting it away from a narrow emphasis on skills".

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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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Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.

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As places that aim to encourage self-improvement and development, schools should work toward teaching students why social norms -- like not wearing leggings as pants -- develop before they force students into following questionable dress code solutions.

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It says that schools that manage the cash well are likely to have ring-fenced it, will aim to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve the highest levels and understand that all teaching must meet the needs of each pupil.

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