It's a quirky fiction - fuelled by the British preoccupation with class, privilege and elitism, and by shared anxieties about inequality, exclusion and the function of education.

BBC: A Point of View: The Oxbridge interview

The ministries of health and education function more efficiently.

NPR: Haiti Violence Disrupts Health Care Services

The emphasis on new forms of assessments can be seen as a function of the need to measure progress toward the new and more explicit goals of education, but it also works the other way.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

Setting aside the larger question of whether imposing national education standards is a legitimate function of a limited federal government, let's turn to the specific question of whether or not national standards will lead to education reforms.

CNN: Competition, Not Standards

Unfortunately, though health care is changing rapidly, traditional medical education focuses on teaching physicians to function solo, learning the details of diagnosing and intervening, but not so much the complexities of engaging disparate groups of clinicians, including nonphysicians, in common cause.

WSJ: The Experts: How to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication

We need to know how to function differently across many areas of the system: health, entitlements, pensions, transportation, energy, extraction, education, politics.

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