Challenging National Education Trends: Andrew Handel in The Daily Signal
Students aren’t just falling behind; they are falling really far behind.
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.”