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7th June 2017
08:45am BST

“These basic tasks have been used for years to establish, and they’re well established, norms of values for young children for tasks they do in everyday life and in school,” lead researcher, David Gaul, said of the concerning findings.
“It is particularly alarming that these basic skills are not being developed at the rate that they have previously been developed.”
The research found that 13 percent of second class students and 14 percent of fourth class students also had difficulties in these basic tasks.Explore more on these topics: