It is hard to reach your full potential if you can't read when you graduate from high school. And think of this, Our 8th graders in America today, only our 69% of them, by the way, can't read at grade level. 69%, 74%, can't perform math at grade level. They're not proficient in either area. So China's teaching quantum mechanics. Our kids can't read and are not performing math in school. That's a crisis. (08:20–08:33)
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Asserts that 69% of 8th graders can't read at grade level and 74% can't perform math at grade level.
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