Lindsay Paterson, professor of educational policy at Edinburgh University, told a conference that the Curriculum for Excellence did not have enough of a focus on driving up basic skills – despite the rhetoric surrounding it.
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Pupils’ basic skill level stagnant for years, says academic
Standards of literacy and numeracy in Scottish schools have been stagnant for nearly two decades and the new curriculum is unlikely to resolve the issue, a leading academic warned yesterday.
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