Under the leadership of an outstanding Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, we launched a Race to the Top, through which states compete for funding by committing to reform and raising standards, by rewarding good teaching, by supporting the development of better assessments to measure results, and by emphasizing math and science to help prepare children for college and careers.

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Historically, this has meant that a lot of teacher-driven education reform has been centered around finding new, less uniform ways of teaching.

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The BMA has drawn up proposals to reform the way doctors are trained at medical school, so that they are exposed to teaching and research opportunities earlier.

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Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.

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