The story is well-known in the North East, with many schools opting to teach it as part of the National Curriculum.
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Last week, it was announced that the deadline would be missed - and pupils, parents and teachers are still waiting to receive the results - with many schools soon approaching the end of term.
Increasing problems in many schools with discipline and bureaucracy simply put many people off.
Most of the normally traffic-choked streets of Caracas were empty, with schools and many businesses shuttered.
Many either have partnerships with foreign schools or operate their own campuses abroad.
Mr Griffiths said that "you could play games with statistics", but in many schools "students in great numbers have been downgraded".
He said that many schools were struggling with what the new duty meant and said there should be "a test of sufficiency in how the duty is fulfilled".
In addition, Saudi textbooks are also posted on the Saudi Education Ministry's website and are shipped and distributed free by a vast Sunni infrastructure established with Saudi oil wealth to many Muslim schools, mosques and libraries throughout the world.
While a team of journalists at Television Centre in London will be phoning as many schools as possible with a view to featuring them on the School Report website and on the red button, with more than 800 participating schools, they are unable to call every school.
But many are well educated, with good language skills learned at religious schools and strong international support networks - many Christian churches are international.
Today, ice sculpting is often incorporated into the culinary arts, with many sculptors learning the craft in culinary schools.
But with an improving global jobs market, many schools are now seeing a fall in full-time MBA applications.
The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
This evolved into a worldwide chain of franchised schools of music, many with a showroom for Yamaha musical instruments.
No one is in a position to negotiate with the teachers, so children at many primary schools will not take the tests.
The Department for Education (DfE) responded to the claim that many free schools are in areas with surplus places by saying "the LGA is wrong".
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The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
Beyond threats of that proportion, many schools now have to deal with the question of how far they should go in monitoring cyberbullying and conflicts between students that move fluidly from the classroom to Facebook or Twitter.
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The master of Marlborough, Edward Gould, says many independent schools are keen to work with the state sector.
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With a more rational retirement system, many more charter schools would give up DB pensions voluntarily.
Turkey has a strong secular core, and so I met with many professors who shared concerns about creationism creeping into schools.
The majority of Massachusetts charter schools are high-performing, with many surpassing their districts in terms of student achievement, said Mr. Chester.
And while many Western schools boast of their links with Chinese universities, "they happen at such different levels, " Mr. Symonds notes.
The next big test comes in September, when the state will open its new recovery district, and many of those schools are still struggling with contractor and repair delays.
But in many cases the aim is to convince the government to provide full funding for the school, as with the many existing Catholic, Protestant and Jewish state schools.
Since it was launched in 2005, Film 15 has worked in schools, with communities, and run many youth programmes, making a total of 46 films with more than 300 young people.
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It's a significant change of heart by Mr Carter and again sets him directly at odds with the Education Secretary who is keen for as many schools as possible to convert to academies.
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While online courses and degree programs are approaches that are being adopted by many schools, franchise-like affiliation with local and regional institutions offer the possibility of a blended approach that still incorporates a physical campus.
Where once government-run schools were seen as a means to provide the children of indigent families with education and vocational training (as well as to assimilate immigrant families), such tax-funded schools soon became the norm, with many people unable to remember or imagine alternatives.
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