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Welcome back to the Learning Curve podcast.

I'm your co-host Alicia Thomas Sersi

And I have a guest co-host on with me today.

Very, very excited to have an old friend, an old colleague,

but a friend in this work, Mary Tamer, founder and executive director

of Mass Potential. Welcome, Mary. Thank you, Alicia. It is always such a treat to get to do this

podcast with you, and I am so excited for today's guest. Me too, very, very excited. And we

usually have our time limits. I hope that we don't talk all day because

we absolutely could about what I know is both of our favorite topics in education. So we're

excited. But before we do that, we of course have to talk about our articles that we've seen this

week. So why don't you go first? Anything you want to share?

Sure. There's been a lot of coverage in the last 24 hours, Alicia, over the most recent

version of a scorecard that Tom Kane at Harvard University has been putting out since

2022, really looking at states and academic

performance since the pandemic ended. And what this report and prior reports really highlights

is the fact that students across the country have lost a lot of ground when it comes to how they're performing,

whether it's in reading, whether it's in math. And this report really sounds the alarm bells.

Once again, I think now that we are several years removed from the pandemic, one of the quotes

that really stood out to me in this piece, and again, there were several

articles I read about the report.

One was in the New York Times yesterday.

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