Despite Smith's impressive run at the Aviva GP in Birmingham - which was a new national record - former world junior 100m and 200m gold medallist Aikines-Areetey was always favourite to claim the remaining 60m sprint place because of his personal-best performance at the English Institute of Sport on 13 February.
Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.
Three strikes in three minutes downed the Toffees as Roberto Martinez's team move into the last four -- their best ever performance in the historic English cup competition.
However analysis of a different set of tests, taken by 16-year-olds six years later, suggested that although the performance of English students overall had not worsened, the brightest had done less well, compared with their counterparts overseas.
These are the same subjects that comprise the existing "English Baccalaureate" - a performance measure of schools already introduced by the government.
The most important performance indicators for this government will be the national targets in English and Mathematics for 11 year olds.
Doncaster's rating has been published in the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPA) - the annual data for all English single tier and county councils.
Pupils at schools where the arts were integrated into the curriculum showed stronger performance in maths, English, critical thinking and verbal skills, he added.
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Athletics saw numerous Commonwealth Games records being overcome, from Welsh star Iwan Thomas setting a new 400m mark, and Trinidad and Tobago's Ato Boldon smashing Linford Christie's 100m Games record, to the English sprint team's record-breaking performance in the 4x100 relay.
The English Baccalaureate was introduced as a measure of school performance, appearing in league tables, and showing the proportion of pupils achieving GCSEs grade C and above and some AS-levels in specified key subjects.
"It will be like a bomb under our programme, " English badminton performance director Finn Traerup said at the time.
Ofsted's redefinition of satisfactory performance as unsatisfactory had been "both a distortion of the English language and a profoundly depressing judgement for many heads, " he added.
Caitlin Hamilton, a 22-year-old English teacher from Dodge City, Kansas, said on Twitter she thought the performance would, without a doubt, be the best part of the Super Bowl.
The performance from Quins at Munster must surely rank as the best by an English club side this season, especially when you take into account the occasion, the venue and the opposition.
The museum even runs a weekly Cantonese opera appreciation class in English on Saturday afternoons, which features a performance by a local troupe.
But the Italian will not be winning the Carling Cup in his first season in English football after his team produced a largely below-par performance at Ewood Park.
The English folk rockers received their honour from fellow-countrywoman Adele, who had earlier won best pop solo performance for her live version of Set Fire to the Rain.
Performance tables will judge schools not just on the number of pupils achieving five good GCSEs in English and maths, but also science, foreign languages and a humanities subject, Mr Gove said.
The clown said he was told to stop in mid-performance on Wednesday because it was being staged in English only.
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If English candidates are where we think they are, based on our work, the implication is that Welsh candidate performance is not improving.
The new measure is already being dubbed "the best eight" because it would measure pupils' performance in eight GCSE subjects, which have to include English and maths, three English Baccalaureate subjects and three others.
In the early days of the Olympics, when the media were getting anxious about Team GB's performance, one interviewer jokingly suggested that Ruta Meilutyte's English coach should have persuaded her to switch her allegiance.
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