Provision was also made for pupils to transfer from secondary modern to grammar schools at the age of 13, if their progress merited such a change, or to take a further two-year course in preparation for the university matriculation examinations.
Their progress felt merited.
Mr. Obama's statement was an acknowledgment that the opposition had made sufficient progress to merit recognition.
Mr. Obama announced the first significant shift in American relations with Myanmar in decades during his trip to Asia this month, citing "flickers of progress" that merited reaching out.
Its success, if it does succeed, could pave the way for other troubled urban school districts which are trying to break the relentless pattern of pupils who fail to progress.Various merit-pay programmes have been tested around the country.
There will be inventions, and arguments about the merits of progress and the morality of this and that.So one must be wary of eerie but spurious similarities.
But it's the moment we're in now, and so it affords an opportunity to talk about the process as a whole, to raise questions about whether our current historical momentum is identical with progress, to note the merits of alternative models that we're not only drifting away from but, as of now, deliberately leaving behind.
For its merits and progress, the body positive movement has its flaws.
After studying exhibitions on art, science and technology at the world's fair in Paris, Adams concluded that -- despite his own appreciation of the merits of "progress" -- Americans were too ready to embrace new technology at the cost of traditional values.
Having interviewed and befriended some enormously brave people there who have been pushing for liberty and democracy, Ms. Wright decided a few years ago that enough signs of progress were emerging to merit a deeper look at the phenomenon.
