Spouting Cave

with foe piety they pray upon us  these profits of death these bottom-line martials who make the rich idols while the poor suffer a loan and suffer always alone caged in a sell ate daze a weak  losing hour minds as the mighty eight the week  oh, how they whined and they dined and licked every last peace  with our bodies on a steak and our blood read as meat the world’s now in vein as the son starts to brake  on the seize on the land on the cracks on our souls on the waits on our feat

I wrote this post for my work's blog In her address to Parliament outlining the Programme for Government, Nicola Sturgeon once again made clear that improving education was her number one priority. More specifically, the First Minister reiterated the importance of closing the attainment gap between children from the wealthiest and poorest backgrounds. In pursuit of that goal, she pledged to introduce a new Education Bill that would deliver the “biggest and most radical change” to the governance of schools since the advent of devolution. The First Minister’s tenure will, in large part, be defined by performance on this issue, for better or worse. It is a bold objective, for while there remain many strengths to Scottish education – the recent increase in Higher and Advanced Higher pass rates, for example – a number of areas have come under intense scrutiny. The most recent PISA results indicated Scotland’s standing has declined in maths, reading and science, with the poorest over...