What Does The US Department Of Education Do? with Secretary Miguel Cardona

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

School is back in session, and so is Getting Curious! This week, Jonathan sits down with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to better understand Pell Grants, Pre-K, and how the Department of Education plays a role in each child’s education. Dr. Miguel A. Cardona currently serves as the 12th Secretary of Education. Since beginning his journey as an educator, Secretary Cardona has served as an elementary school teacher, school principal, Performance and Evaluation lead administrator, Assistant Superintendent, and most recently Commissioner of Education for the State of Connecticut. You can follow Secretary Cardona on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SecCardona. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:03.4	I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant
0:08.3	expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.6	On today's episode, I'm joined by Secretary Miguel Cardona, where I ask him, how can we
0:17.5	make the grade on U.S. education?
0:20.8	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:21.8	This is Jonathan Vaness.
0:22.8	I'm so excited to welcome you to this episode.
0:25.1	I'm pretty sure this is the first for us because we've interviewed cabinet members before,
0:31.0	but they were like, no offense to them because we love them, but they were former cabinet
0:34.1	members.
0:35.1	I think you're our first sitting a cabinet member ever.
0:38.1	Welcome to the show, Secretary Miguel Cardona, who is the Secretary of Education.
0:43.1	And in fact, you're the country's 12th.
0:45.3	Who knew?
0:46.3	Isn't that something?
0:47.3	Glad to be with you.
0:48.3	Thanks for having me.
0:49.3	This is kind of our guiding question for you, because every episode of Getting Curious,
0:52.6	there's always kind of a different question.
0:53.6	You know, I'm time to sit around and listen to Getting Curious, you're literally busy
0:57.3	running that department of education.
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