For more than a hundred years starting in the 1830s, the center of downtown Boston was Scolay Square.

You could get your picture taken.

If you wanted to, you could visit the first dentist who used ether to reduce pain when he worked on your teeth.

But in the 1960s they tore down Scali Square, tearing down 1,000 buildings and displacing tens of thousands of people.

They did it to build government center.

Now in February, Boston is a cold and windy city, and inside of government center, inside the

plaza that they want to call a town square. It is colder and windier than

anywhere else in all of Boston. Hey, it's Seth And this is a Kimbo.

We'll be back in a second to talk about the architecture of architecture but first here's a message

from our sponsor.

One day, Paon brought a book home from school and read me a couple of poems from it.

That was the first time I'd ever heard my son read out loud.

Those words came from Asta, mom to Poughon.

Poughon was one of the students enrolled in the

accelerator learning courses that we at Chaining Stories run to help struggling

public school students in Nepal learn how to read and do math.

My name is Renee and I'm the founder of Changing Stories and we exist because there are

617 million kids in youth in low-income countries around the world who can't read or do basic math,

even though most of them are already in school.

We're on a mission to change that.

We're on a mission to end the learning crisis and make sure that kids like

Pawan get an opportunity to learn and complete an education.

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