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Simple pleasures ReprintsThe case for more rigorous exams is strong.
The GCSE reforms we're making today borrow and build on the best practice in those more rigorous exams.
Updated at 12.53pm BST 8.45am BST Michael Gove will be in the Commons at 3.30pm announcing details of his plans to replace GCSEs in England with a more rigorous exams.
We want to empower heads with more powers to enforce discipline, enhance teachers' security with anonymity when facing malicious allegations, liberate all teaching staff with a less prescriptive curriculum and reduce teaching to the test with fewer, more rigorous, exams.
Clegg has been careful not to criticise Gove in recent weeks because they have been in agreement, even at the height of their row over the summer, that schools in England need a more rigorous exams system.
"People send in photocopies of tax returns, and in smaller buildings they are almost always accepted as accurate," Mr. Weinstein said, "but a building that does more rigorous exams could ask for certification from an accountant or even a copy from the I.R.S".
It has 1,200 pupils aged 11 to 18. 1.24pm BST Lunchtime summary Labour has firmed up its opposition to Michael Gove's plans to replace GCSEs in England with a more rigorous exam.
But it is understood that there are two broad elements to the reforms: the national curriculum, which sets out what secondary school pupils should be taught, will be scrapped; and a more rigorous exam system will be introduced.
She accepted that it would be difficult to set one, more rigorous exam for a wide range of abilities, but added: "Good schools will enable all children to pass this qualification".
In 2014, the state test will switch to a new, more rigorous exam that aligns with the Common Core, a set of curriculum standards adopted by states across the country to better prepare students for college.
"In the longer term, we need to ask ourselves some searching questions as a society about whether the perceived benefits of a more rigorous exam system are outweighed by the toll on the mental health of our young people," he said.
