"Students learn best when exposed to clear, explicit teaching in quiet, well-disciplined, highly structured classrooms. It is important that they read regularly and widely, write clearly and accurately, with a developing capacity for precis and clear thinking. And let us not underestimate the importance of memorising the times tables and of being proficient with the use of fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio."
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