The results will inform the Scottish Government's Literacy Action Plan, due for publication in the autumn 2010, which will outline the next steps to further raise standards of literacy from early years through to adult learning.

UNESCO: The Scottish Literacy strategy

These funds should be used to encourage school districts to employ research-based strategies for intervening early with slow learners, raising academic standards and, most important, improving learning conditions in underperforming schools.

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