With growing inequality now a greater danger than middle-class pupils' inadequate achievement, policies that widen learning differences should be avoided.
The latest Ofsted report, following an inspection in November 2014, makes demoralising reading: "Leadership and management – Inadequate"; "Behaviour and safety of pupils – Inadequate"; "Quality of teaching – Inadequate"; "Achievement of pupils – Inadequate".
Higher education faces stark challenges: the ravaging of public universities' budgets by strained state and local governments; ever rising tuition and student debt; inadequate student achievement; the corrosive impact of soaring inequality; and the neglect by some elite institutions of their core mission of teaching undergraduates.
Children in families that have suffered trauma constitute a risk group for developing psychiatric illness, dysfunctional behavior and inadequate academic achievement.
They have often been described as "cinematic," a phrase thoroughly inadequate to the achievement: Krigstein condenses and distends time itself.
The evil person may wholeheartedly endorse some evil plan of action at a particular moment, but over the course of time, Aristotle supposes, he will regret his decision, because whatever he does will prove inadequate for the achievement of his goals (1166b5 29).
School quality is also declining, with low levels of learning achievement, inadequate teacher preparation systems, outdated teaching methodologies, over-centralized school governance and crumbling school infrastructure among the major concerns.
A list of individuals recently deceased whose achievements received inadequate recognition in the columns of the press.
He also held that while "the Chindits gave a splendid example of courage and hardihood", their achievements were inadequate returns for the resources bestowed on them.
"Plans for increasing academic achievement are inadequate and reflect a low level of academic expectation," they added.
