Investing in whatever we need, whether it is efficiency experts, better computer monitoring programs or devising programs to increase the effectiveness of existing inspection methods, we need to do it.

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David Reynolds, chairman of the government's numeracy taskforce, says that the teaching methods he prescribes are ones that are common both in those British schools which get good inspection reports and in countries whose pupils perform best in international tests.

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