Ateam of academics from Edinburgh University have given the early intervention programme in Scotland the thumbs-up - and have praised nursery nurses and classroom assistants for their contribution.
The early intervention programme introduced in 1997 was intended to raise children's standards in literacy and numeracy in the first two years of primary school. It received 7m government funding in the first year, which was then doubled to 14m annually.
In 1998 the then Scottish Office commissioned a three-year evaluation of the programme and the findings, published last week by the Scottish Executive in summary form, show that it has significantly improved standards of reading, though it has had less impact on attainment in mathematics.
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