Raising the standards of learning that are achieved through school education is an important national priority. Governments have been vigorous in the last ten years in making changes in pursuit of this aim. National curriculum testing, the development of the GCSE, league tables of school

So much of our Education system in England has been directed at raising standards specifically in English and Mathematics in recent years, to the detriment of other areas that previously featured in schools. Evidence of progress, the setting of targets, assessment and inspection has been the order

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is a computationally attractive alternative to standard covariance selection for sparse high-dimensional graphs. Neighborhood selection estimates the conditional independence restrictions separately for each node in the graph and is hence equivalent to variable selection for Gaussian linear models. We

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quality raises reading and math test scores by approximately.20 and.24 standard deviations, respectively, on a nationally standardized scale. In addition, teaching experience has statistically significant positive effects on reading test scores, controlling for fixed teacher quality.

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The views expressed in this report are the authors ’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills. © Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2005 ISBN 1 84478 567 XContents page Acknowledgements Executive summary