Despite this grim picture, school officials say, the current teacher evaluation system — based on haphazard observations by administrators — rates 95 percent of the district's teachers as "effective".
The wide-ranging report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) says that while results in academies have improved overall, the picture school by school is "mixed".
Likewise rescued from semi-obscurity is the studio-setup photographer James Casebere, a sometime associate of the late-nineteen-seventies Pictures school, whose more renowned alumni include Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.
They also put out funny baby pictures, school projects and sports gear to personalize the space.
Mr Gove said the move would provide parents with a "true picture" of schools' performance.
Politicians are painting a dire picture of schools being shut down and hospitals closing whilst ways are found to tax electronic commerce.
Picture the schools and homes in close proximity to those toxic fields.
Even though I attend a racially and economically diverse high school in New York City, I just couldn't picture a school in the suburbs looking like mine.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the results gave a misleading picture of school performance and should be ignored.
