Hey, everybody.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another brand new episode of the Learning Curve podcast. I'm one of your co-hosts, Albert Chang. And joining me is Alicia Searcy. Alicia, good to see you again. Hey, Albert, good to see you too. Hope all as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't complain.

A lot going on, but can't complain.

Yes, I agree.

We got a cool show today.

We're going to have Stephen Greenblatt to come talk to us about Christopher Marlowe.

Now, maybe folks might be wondering, who's that?

Well, he was a contemporary of Shakespeare, and so we're going to learn all

about him and what his bearing on Shakespeare was. So I'm looking forward to the show. I don't

know about you, Alicia. Yeah, it's going to be cool. Well, before we do that, let's talk news.

What caught your eye this week? Well, I'm going to sound a little bit nostalgic.

Oh, okay.

Came across an article in Chalk Beat.

Will bipartisan education reform make a comeback, three reasons it could, and three obstacles?

And it's by Matt Barnum.

So I say I'm going to sound a little bit nostalgic because I remember back in the day when I was in the legislature. And I would say probably the majority of the Obama years, I think it's kind of a coincidence, but also just that he was

one of the presidents who was willing to work in a bipartisan way on education. But I feel like

during that time, Albert, there really was a such thing as

bipartisanship. And although I had a number of disagreements with my counterparts on the other

side of the aisle, it felt like education brought us together. And so this article was really

interesting to me because the author is talking about, you know,

whether or not this can happen again.

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