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schools should be rewarded for making the most of all their students, said Mike Baker, what degrees

Have you taken the position that school boards are preparing for qualifying school next month? Following the introduction last year of the controversial measure Ebacc, more change is coming. Therefore, it is likely that more turbulence.

But how the new tables to be parents, and to choose between local schools? And just as important in the current climate of concern about cheating in examinations, the changes will stop the game-play that is encouraged by the current tables?

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leave the tables that the context of value added, which attempted to address the social factors that shape performance the. The government says it was "difficult for the public to understand." Instead, new measures show the progress of students and have a "bridge the gap" measure that compares student performance in the examination of free school meals with others.

However, for all turns, the Government will continue to carry out what the Education Secretary Michael Gove said to be "the key performance measure", ie the number of students achieving five or more A *- C grades including maths and English.

ministers seem to persist in the hierarchy of the measure, despite the recent criticism of the President of the Special Education, Conservative MP Graham Stuart. He believes he has "contributed to the games," in some schools and students who are on the border of C / D grades at the expense of less successful students.

Stuart has a point and, from this quarter, this revision can not be excluded as conveniently defensiveness on the part of schools or teachers. Commenting on the recent allegations of cheating consideration by the Council, who suggested the teachers had received advice irregular in future examinations, Stuart said that this shows how the current system of accountability "push and distort behavior and lead to unexpected and unwanted by the results. "

A major advantage is that the proposed action against the schools to focus on students at the threshold of C / D. It is based on the best eight GCSE grades for students at three different points in the distribution of capacity, those who obtained the percentiles 25, 50 and 75 of the key stage two tests at the end of the Elementary School

An added benefit is that this should be useful in helping parents choose the school because it works better as a predictor of the degree of risk test of her own child if they attend a private school . This would help give the misconception that there is somehow a "better school" when it is more a question of what is "law school."
No doubt some still consider the proposed measure more complex than the current five *- C. As Definitely not lend itself to a simple classification of the style of football. But it may be better for all that, because the current measure is misleading if parents think they tell you what your own child to achieve in a particular school.

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