What Should the Department of Education Do?

Am I missing something, or does this article spend hundreds of words pushing a "pro-excellence" plan without ever defining what they mean by excellence? It's hard to see how a dictionary definition ("the quality of being outstanding or extremely good") is useful for differentiating their success metrics from those of other stakeholders; so taking the steel man reading that this is a term of art and not just a meaningless label, a domain-specific definition for those of us less familiar in the art would be appreciated.

Dissolve.