Atis clear we are looking the strain on School Districts we have not seen in a decade. How do states, families and School Districts cope with the massive physical strain of the Great Recession and how do you expect this crisis to be similar or different than what we just went through in the last decade . Fiscal strain. Providedderal aid under the recovering act during the Great Recession was really important but only covered one quarter of state budget shortfalls. It ended too soon when the state is still struggling to meet their needs. Result states enacted those laughs and spending reductions laughs andthose spending reduction slowed the economic recovery in a significant way. Of schoolhe impact level was pronounced. The school year was shrunk. The reductions in arizona and arizona entered its fullday kindergarten. Those kinds of effects were widespread and in many cases are still with us today. I mentioned haven heading into the pandemic there were 77 thousand fewer teachers and oth
You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome in this early frank welcome to going underground before we get to the book which i think is being read by more and more people than maybe you even expected tell me about how you contract it coded in rome and why youve dedicated your life way before coronavirus to the study of pandemics and epidemics yes one devoted so many years to pandemic diseases because it seems to me there were. Or for way for understanding how societies function are put together their values the relationships between people
Thank you so much, its great to be here, thank you for coming out. In every room there are always survivors so if you start to feel distressed by what im sharing obviously its okayto get up and take a break. Theres a National Sexual assault hotline is one 806 56 hope. So im going to start withthe story. In boston was a sweet student. Hot summer nights, sex with his girlfriend and its pretty much the sexiest story in the book. Thats not thestory on going to tell, sorry. But he was a good guy. He was the kind of guy who had developed a series of nicknames for the kinds of orgasms his girlfriend had because he wascommitted to making sure sex was something that felt good for her to. But austin also sexually assaulted someone. He told us a story about the night freshman year he was in a room with his roommates girlfriends roommate. So the roommate has a girlfriend. Two people get shoveled into the same bedroom together. The girl was pretty drunk and she said to him she wasnt interested in d
Of your new book, tools and weapons . Its Digital Technology has become both a tool and a weapon. Its creating all kinds of benefits is challenges as well we have to grapple it both sides of that equation. Your book is a world tour that starts in quincy washington why quincy washington . We chose quincy washington because its one of the data center capitals of the world if you will its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power this both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of if you will, what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings filled with generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries, but of course mostly server computers. Everything we do, almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud is really one of these data centers. And you have 100 of these in 20 countries . More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of the largest but Com
A gold medal win for each education was was top of the class sure and i think that is something that has kind of flown the routes the kind of proudness about our Education System because its kind of bound to the d finnish d. N. A. Its comes from kind of a 150 years ago when when finland was actually a very poor country and when 1st the ideas about finland one day being an independent nation started. Then there was the idea that whats the best way for finland to be a nation among nations and the answer warse that if we can raise the kind of cultural or language stick skills level of the whole population that is the best way for us to become independent and that was actually also the means that was taken the idea to educate everybody in the Finnish Society and thats kind of its still kind of carries on that same idea that the equality is by far the most important principle in the finisher to cations system so education a symbol of collective National Achievement when we see service showi