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Ofsted inspectors have called for
"urgent" action to help thousands of
12-year-olds who start secondary school
unable to read or write properly.
The education watchdog said standards
have risen over the past five years but
one in three primary school lessons are
still no better than satisfactory.
Boys have shown little improvement and
they fall further behind girls in test
results as they grow older, it added.
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