The campaign group outlined that children who read well by the age of 11 do better at schools,
achieve better exam results and perform better in the workplace.
It says this may be because these pupils are more likely to
get good exam results and to go to a top university.
While it is correct to say that grammar schools do
produce better exam results (see image below) than their comprehensive counterparts, they do not raise standards across the state education system across the board.
Academic research from Simon Burgess, a professor of economics at Bristol University, recently showed that pupils with additional languages tend to make more academic progress than other groups and that
good exam results in London «did appear to be accounted for» by the increased number of pupils with English as an additional language.
Sometimes these teachers can get
very good exam results because their students follow their instructions carefully, but I worry that their pupils haven't really learnt much beyond absorbing the message that you get on by copying the teacher.
It reopened three weeks ago, with new principal Barry Smith saying his new rules would ensure pupils «leave achieving
really good exam results».
While grammar schools themselves
produce better exam results, the attainment of students at secondary moderns in areas where selection still exists is lower than those at comprehensives in areas where grammar schools do not exist.
But inspectors warned that GCSE teaching focused on
achieving good exam results and that this did not always prepare pupils for study at a more advanced level.
Well, this is precisely where good training is crucial; if you have a good grounding in educational psychology, philosophy and history, you won't be flattered by
your good exam results.
Good exam results — not so - called «soft skills» — give pupils limitless life opportunities, writes one teacher
He continued: «Students in alternative provision are far less likely to achieve
good exam results, find well - paid jobs or go on to further study.
Recent evidence from Ofsted has also proved that forcing a school to become an academy doesn't in itself lead to
better exam results.
Good exam results can be parlayed into college credits and permissions to advance directly to higher - level college courses.
Some schools open their doors to poor and harder to educate children, while others play fast and loose with the admissions code to ensure they get
better exam results.
The college said Mr Moore had successfully raised academic standards, producing
the best exam results in recent college history.
The Education Minister Huw Lewis hopes it will improve standards in the classroom and lead to
better exam results.
They will point to the long - term benefits for both pupils and society, and will argue against viewing SEL as merely a means of achieving
better exam results.
Stephen Shamie, managing partner at labour and employment firm Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP, confirms the best way to impress is at the interview stage, since it goes without saying students who make it through the door will have
good exam results.
Understandably, rates of mental ill - health are high, because the pressure to get
good exam results and to choose the right university course, the worry about finding a job you can build a life on (or just live on), and a place to live, are damaging.