At his cabinets, it was absolutely forbidden to discuss in front
of Gordon Brown his
chronic failure to present a personality or fashion a vision with appeal to voters, his lack
of capacity to run an orderly and collegiate
government with a coherent long - term strategy and his crippling inability to remedy any
of these flaws, whatever help he was offered.
But the
government said by using a value - added measure
of pupil performance, both current performance and improvement over time, will give schools and groups «time to improve while reacting in time to avoid
chronic failure that irredeemably damages any child's education».