The Executive’s reform programmefor Scotland’s schools – the most comprehensive school modernisationprogramme for a generation - was set out a year ago in Ambitious, Excellent Schools(Bib. number 34227).The English White Paper clearlyshares many of our own aims – not accepting second best from any school, the highestexpectations for all our children, and greater parental involvement in education– but we have a distinctive, devolved education system in Scotland to which ourpolicies and actions are tailored.