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The idea that better exam results show pupils are getting better is "baloney", he says.
The figures show pupils aged between five and 11-years-old were suspended 11,420 times for physical assault against an adult in state-funded primary schools in England in 2013-14 – up by 25 per cent on the previous year.
In the case of two major sponsors, this meant imbuing them with evangelical Christianity, and in another famous case it meant having a fully functioning stock-exchange trading floor in the basement, to show pupils what really matters, which is, of course, making lots of money.
Gove professes himself a great fan of Daniel Willingham, a US cognitive psychologist who has sought to use scientific research to show pupils learn best through the use of memory and routine, arguments outlined in a book, Why Don't Students Like School?, also popular with free schools guru Toby Young.
These most recent figures show pupils who finished school in 2011.
Mr West told the BBC he did make the comments but was trying to show pupils differing points of view.
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He added that evidence had shown pupils were less likely to be bullied in large schools.
Maidwell Hall's website shows pupils reading on the lawn under a perfect blue sky, playing rounders, or sharing a mealtime joke.
The Council was inspired by an ambitious Unesco art exhibition, shown in Paris, called Journeys to School, which showed pupils all over the world making their daily trip.
Footage showed pupils' families and friends climbing more than five floors to cling on to perilous ledges and pass notes through windows.
Tim Straughan, the chief executive of the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, said: "The report shows pupils appear to be leading an increasingly clean-living lifestyle and are less likely to take drugs as well as cigarettes and alcohol.
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