A recent report claimed to show which headteachers make the most impact on improving pupils' chances.
A 2008 Ofsted report that looked at a sample of schools providing opportunities to learn outside the classroom found that, when implemented well, those opportunities "contributed significantly to raising standards and improving pupils' personal, social and emotional development".
In a controversial move in 2010, the education secretary Michael Gove exempted academies set up under the coalition from the standards, widely admired for improving pupils' behaviour and concentration, which have been compulsory in traditional schools in England since 2006.
An economic evaluation was designed alongside the Roots of Empathy cluster-randomised trial evaluation, which is a school-based intervention for improving pupils' social and emotional wellbeing.
Improving pupils' day-to-day lives and reviving the local economy The most urgent action required to improve the living and learning conditions of children who have already been severely affected by the war is to equip schools that have been the victims of pillaging or partial destruction with furniture.
We have been reviewing the primary curriculum to improve pupil engagement".
One of these is data-led, and last year my target was to improve pupil retention, which I was able to demonstrate by recording pupil numbers".
Its website is full of positive testimony from schools that bears out McConnell's claim that breakfast clubs improve pupil attendance, punctuality, behaviour and attainment.
"To improve pupil teacher ratios and the quality of our education, we should agree an objective for our country that stage by stage, adjusting for inflation, we raise average investment per pupil to today's private school level".
