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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/schools-face-tough-new-targets.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Schools are to face tougher achievement targets and there could be a shake-up of exams in a new White Paper" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-schools-face-tough-new-targets.jpg" alt="Schools are to face tougher achievement targets and there could be a shake-up of exams in a new White Paper"/></a></p>
<p>Schools are to be set tough new achievement targets and will face being taken over if they fail to meet them, a new Education White Paper is expected to say.</p>
<p>Secondary schools will be considered failing if less than 35% of their pupils get five C grades at GCSE, including English and maths, and fewer students are making two levels of progress between the ages of 11 and 16 (Key Stages 3 and 4) than the national average.</p>
<p>The measure will replace a target introduced under the last Labour government for schools to have more than 30% of pupils achieving five C grades including the basics. Ministers are understood to believe that this target was too basic and a more nuanced one is needed.</p>
<p>In addition, primary schools are expected to be told that they will be below the floor if less than 60% of their pupils reach level 4 in English and maths and fewer youngsters make two levels of progress between ages five and 11 (Key Stages 1 and 2) than the national average. Any school that fails to meet the target will face intervention, such as being turned into an academy.</p>
<p>The move means that many more schools are likely to be identified as failing.</p>
<p>The new White Paper represents a major overhaul of the English schools system and is expected to lay out proposals covering teacher training, qualifications and assessment, inspections, league tables and funding in a bid to boost standards. Education Secretary Michael Gove said last week he wanted trainee teachers to spend more time in the classroom. </p>
<p>School leaders are also likely to be given unlimited time to scrutinise teachers, scrapping a rule that says they can be formally observed for only three hours a year and plans have also previously been mooted to scrap funding for teacher trainees who gain a third class degree.</p>
<p>Alongside an overhaul of teacher training, the White Paper, The Importance of Teaching, is likely to contain sweeping reforms to qualifications. This could mean abandoning modular &#8211; so-called &#8220;bite-size&#8221; GCSEs in favour of linear exams taken after two years of study.</p>
<p>Reforms of qualifications would also pave the way for plans for an &#8220;English Baccalaureate&#8221;, which would reward pupils for achieving five good GCSEs in English, maths, science, foreign languages and a humanities subject. Students could also be marked on their spelling, punctuation and grammar in GCSE exams in the future and schools could be prevented from using vocational courses as &#8220;equivalent&#8221; qualifications to push themselves up the GCSE league tables.</p>
<p>The White Paper is also due to include plans to introduce a reading test for six-year-olds to check if they can read simple words like &#8220;cat&#8221; and &#8220;street&#8221;. And there is also expected to be proposals to streamline Ofsted inspections, reducing the number of categories schools are judged on to four.</p>
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