ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force Director Andrew Handel spoke with Kevin Stocklin of The Daily Signal about states taking the initiative to improve reading and math scores throughout K-12 education.
“Third grade is really a key age, where we’ve got to correct those early literacy issues, if they exist with a student, otherwise we risk them falling further and further behind,” Andrew Handel, director of the Education and Workforce Development Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council, told The Daily Signal.
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“Since 1992, the gap between students in the 90th percentile and the 10th percentile have expanded by 27 points, and that’s because students in the [bottom] 10th percentile fell by 25 points while students in the 90th percentile actually went up by two,” Handel said. “Students aren’t just falling behind; they are falling really far behind.”