NAEP scores here a couple months ago-I think it was in October, the release, so there was a goal in Britain, in England that 90% of students would be proficient or better in math, in reading, in England and pre-pandemic they were making some gains toward that goal. So, a quote from this article-and I want to put this in context because we talked about U.S. Of course, their system of education is, it goes back a bit further than ours in many respects, but this is about really the learning loss that so many countries are still dealing with and Britain and England, as well. And I mean that by saying I think that we tend to take both good and bad ideas from one another, and you can sort of watch the pendulum swing. and British education systems mirror one another. So, this has nothing to do with English system of school funding, but one of the things that I learned and didn’t know when I was doing my dissertation is just how, how often the U.S. This title’s going sound eerily familiar to anything that we would hear here in the us and it is, a “Quarter of a million children enter secondary school without basic maths.” And today I’ve got a story coming out of The Guardian. So, I spent a lot of time studying their system. in terms of how they fund schools and specifically in terms of how they, target resources to families with the least access, let’s put it that way. I don’t know if you know this jar, but when I was writing my dissertation, I looked at three different countries in comparison to the U.S. So I don’t know what your story of the week is, but I’ve, picked one from Jolly Old England, where I know you spent a lot of time. We’ve got a really interesting guest today, Gerard, so I want to get to that. See, Listeners, we will come to you under any circumstances, that’s just how important this podcast is to us. Cara: No, I remember, yeah, I remember that because you are such an intrepid podcast host that you were recording from the car. We finally got a hotel room, but we lived like the Pilgrims were living. ![]() And two years ago, we had something similar, more because of the weather, not because of a pipe, but for three days, we had no heat, we slept in the bed as a family of four. There are millions of people who have what we’ll call the theara crisis every day. I missed you last week, I did get to enjoy some downtime with the family after the drama, but, how are you doing? So just, Mother Nature keeps you guessing, doesn’t it? I, I hope you’re well, Gerard. And then, by that afternoon it was back up to like 55. But it was, quite incredible.Īnd here, you know, Boston was, our producers will let me know if I’m wrong, but I think we got down to like negative 22 or something probably. I’m not going to pretend that I’m a martyr and I ever want a taste of that again. And so, I spent many days just telling my children, do you have any clue how many people in this world do not live with running water? You know, the small, small things that you take for granted. ![]() ![]() So, but I have to share that, you know, I’ve never gone through a time in my life where I’ve have been more than 24 hours without just being able to turn on a faucet and enjoy water in all of the various things that water does for us. let me tell you, it could have been a lot worse. ![]() You might have already talked about this last week, but we experienced a deep freeze, which meant I experienced some typical Northeastern housing issues when all of our pipes burst and we had a flood. As you know, I was out and about doing some interesting international travel, and big news here in Boston. This is Cara Candal here with Gerard Robinson. Cara Candal: Well hello, Learning Curve listeners. Pioneer Young Professionals (PYP) Network.Book: U-Turn: America’s Return to State Healthcare Solutions.Pioneer Institute’s Life Sciences Initiative.Common Core National Education Standards.BOOK: A Vision of Hope – Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts.
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