Labour has a better story to tell on education, especially in primary schools (see second chart).
Strict nutritional guidelines were made compulsory in primary schools in 2008 and secondaries in 2009.
Language teaching will now start in primary schools, when pupils are seven years old.
Now we have 35% of all truants begin their history of non attendance in primary schools.
It highlighted problems including poor performance in primary schools and inadequate arrangements for supporting "challenging schools".
In an effort to remedy this, Ms Moratti is making English compulsory in primary schools.
Preparations for August are generally thought to be going better in primary schools than in secondary schools.
The study, published by education software company Renaissance Learning, also looked at a younger group in primary schools.
The Mental Health Foundation has also produced Promoting Mental Health in Primary Schools - a pack for teachers.
The council hopes the Sound Trail will be used in primary schools to teach children about local history.
Improving the teaching of reading in primary schools and raising behaviour standards would help improve the situation, he said.
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The play-based Foundation Phase for three to seven-year-olds was due to be used in primary schools across Wales from September.
He insisted that it was important to start prioritising and allocating more resources to speech and language in primary schools.
The education secretary also called for improved gender balance in primary schools, where far more women are employed than men.
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But a proposal to deploy an extra 70, 000 staff, purely to teach English in primary schools, is being watered down.
Working in primary schools in poor neighbourhoods, he also contributed to literacy training for adults and education for the visually handicapped.
The EESD Centers are located in primary schools of those communities that have been closed due to the reduction of population in these areas.
Altogether, applications to teach in secondary school have risen by 8.9%, by 24% in middle schools and 17.7% in primary schools.
The move follows a government review of calculator use in primary schools.
The government cash was also to be used for language teachers in primary schools and science and maths teachers in secondary schools.
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This, while peak student numbers, followed by declines, were reached in primary schools in 1982, middle schools in 1987, and high schools in 1990.
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The 2009 census showed a rise in free school meal pupils from 15.5% to 15.9% in primary schools and from 13.1% to 13.4% in secondary.
In primary schools implementation seems to be successful in some schools.
It also shares Ofsted's concerns about history teaching in primary schools.
The regime of targets and testing, which the government has seen as a success in primary schools, will also be further introduced in secondary schools.
But the National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower there was no evidence to show that academy status in primary schools brings any educational benefits.
But a spokesperson said it was vital to get the basics right in primary schools and to make the curriculum relevant to older, non-academic secondary school pupils.
Mian Shuja ur Rehman, Education Minister of Punjab, referred to the commitment of provincial leadership for achieving 100% enrolment and retention of children in primary schools by 2015.
Although enrolment in primary schools has increased hugely since colonial times from 25% of all children in 1960 to about 60% now the numbers of the uneducated are also growing.
The report also reflects that the majority of young people currently get most of their history in primary schools and urges better training in the subject for primary teachers.
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