FRESH calls have been made to provide financial incentives to attract the most talented teachers in Scotland to schools serving deprived communities.
The demand came after it emerged Scotland has come bottom of a new international league table that records the gap between the reading skills of the cleverest pupils from both affluent and deprived areas.
Research by the Institute of Education, based at the University of London, revealed the difference in achievement between the two groups in Scotland was the largest out of 23 countries studied.
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