Well, hello, everybody and welcome to another episode of the Learning Curve podcast.

I'm one of your co-hosts this week, Albert Chang, and co-hosting with me this week is Alicia Sersi.

Alicia, what's up?

Albert, all is well, except that it's super cold.

But how are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

Yeah, we had our cold snap here, too.

But just in time for November and the winding down of fall and winter.

But also for this week, in particular, we commemorate Veterans Day, which was originally

Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I. So that explains

our guest, Alicia. We're going to have Professor Hugh Strawn talk to us about the First World War.

Yes. So first, let's say, happy Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Week. We'll celebrate the whole week

and just thanks to all for your service to this country.

That's right. Yeah. And we want to acknowledge those who are currently serving and for those who have since retired, definitely appreciate their service and sacrifice.

So let's get on with this episode and let's lean into Veterans Day and think about World War I.

But before we do that, we've got some news to cover. Alicia,

what did you find? Well, this is not directly related to veterans, but the story that I want

to talk about this week is a piece that's from the Fordham Institute, and it's written by

Kristen McQuillan and Robert Pondicio. I think those are two familiar names to folks who do this work.

But it's entitled, From Laws to Literacy, the Science of Reading Needs Needs to Successeed.

And Albert, I felt like my toes were being stepped on just a little bit.

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