There is widespread evidence that the current headline accountability measure – which ranks secondary schools by the percentage of their pupils who achieve 5 A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and maths – has encouraged teachers to focus, logically but excessively, on pupils at the C/D borderline.
In Win Probability Added, Slay led Detroit's secondary a season ago (0.85, which ranked No. 29 in the NFL).
Sherman (1.12 in WPA, which ranked No. 10) and Maxwell (0.83 in WPA, which ranked No. 30) are as good as they come, and Seattle's secondary posted better figures than Detroit last season in yards per pass attempt and yards per completion, while holding opposing quarterbacks to a lower average passer rating.
It compares favorably to places like New York City (which ranked 115) and Chicago (which ranked 242).
Since last year the Welsh government has ranked secondary schools into five bands which take account of factors such as GCSE results, attendance and the number of children who have free school dinners.
However, U.S. respondents ranked secondary school teachers far lower, the 12th lowest of all the countries included in the survey.
Their closest state school is one of the highest ranked secondary schools in Wales, but they live 0.25 miles outside the catchment area.
But the cameras went away, and Holmes was asked about the challenge of facing the Giants' tattered secondary, which ranks 29th among 32 N.F.L. teams in pass defense.
Evert, 58, won 154, which ranks second.
This allows distributions to be ranked by secondary features which are a function of both the primary data and the application space.
