Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Gove says that Ofsted will be given the task of identifying schools with "persistent serious problems".
Mr Gove says the Coalition will "methodically challenge" all struggling schools. "Either they improve fast or they will have their management replaced by an academy sponsor with a proven track record," he says.
"The schools with the worst records, including primaries for the first time, will have their management replaced."
Sats results increased under Labour but in recent years the number of 11 year-olds achieving the standard expected has stalled. Figures show about four in 10 pupils still fail to master the basics of English and mathematics by the time they start secondary school.
Mr Gove says that parents are still struggling to get their children into decent schools despite a doubling of the education budget under Labour.
More than one in 10 infants is believed to have missed out on their first choice primary this September. It is thought numbers could rise rapidly in coming years. "One of the tragedies of the last 13 years is that, despite record spending, there still aren't enough good schools to go around," he writes. "While we have some of the best schools in the world, we also have some which are struggling."
The comments come as the first wave of academies to be established under the Coalition opens this week.
Some 32 open this week with another 110 being developed in the coming months. It follows emergency legislation allowing outstanding schools to be fast-tracked into the academies programme.
Teaching unions called the reforms a "failure" and said most schools had shunned them. But Mike Harris, of the Institute of Directors, said: "Whilst the fruits of these reforms cannot come soon enough, reform will not happen overnight. To expect otherwise is, frankly, silly."
Graeme Paton, Education Editor Telegraph
Published: 02 Sep 2010
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