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Schools fail to hit basics target
http://www.mieonline.org/home/articles/504/1/Schools-fail-to-hit-basics-target/Page1.html
Om Varma
Associate Professor, Education Studies Department, MIE 
By Om Varma
Published on 12/01/2007
 
By Gary Eason
Education editor, BBC News website- Thursday, 11 January 2007, 00:27 GMT
Five hundred secondary schools in England did not meet the government's minimum target for GCSE attainment, the annual performance tables show.