Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics.

I'm Ravi Gupta, and today I talk to Beth Hawkins, an education reporter at the 74,

to talk about all of the issues of K-12 education that are not being discussed in our national presidential race.

But we do talk about what separates the two candidates on education policy,

and then we get into some really fun, nerdy questions around educational practice. At the end of

this episode, I'm going to tackle a couple of voicemails and also some questions around the

Marty McClary interview, the Lenore Skenezy, free range

parents interview. So I've got a bunch of questions over the past week on a couple of these

episodes. And so I'm going to tackle some of them then. But before we get into it, just one item

from my notebook that I just wanted to mention that is unrelated to education, but I thought was

fascinating as the economist, we'll link to this in

the show notes, came out with a story, a series of stories really about how the U.S. economy is doing

and why it's actually doing extremely well. And I want to pause here to say, for my Trump friends

out there, don't worry, they're not just focusing on the Kamala Harris record or the Biden record.

So you don't have to worry about this being some kind of like attempt to sell the Biden record

over Trump or anything like that. They go back all the way in 1990 and they talk about

economic trends generally and why the U.S. is doing comparatively well.

And I'll read you some of their stats.

You know, in 1990, America accounted for two-fifths of the overall GDP of the G7 group

of advanced country today.

It's about half on a per capita basis.

American economic output is now 40% higher than in Western Europe and Canada and 60% higher than

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