from the president. plus, i would ask politicians in texas and washington how we get past empty platitudes of thoughts and prayers to create real change. i m a gunman, i have guns, i m a former police officer, i m a former army officer. these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets where this is gonna keep happening. or this is gonna keep happening. also, this hour, new legal questions surrounding former president trump. what did he really know about the classified documents in the basement of barr law go? we re gonna dive into what the special counsel was trying to learn. the surprising reason why it s great test scores and u.s. history are dropping around the country, a hint, the nation s covid lockdown three years ago is only partly to blame. and then, coming up in our next hour, one man is doing everything he can to help migrants left on el paso streets. my conversation with his concerns for so many people right now and when title 42 ends in just four days time. we w
american students. test scores from eighth graders showing record low performances on history courses, as well as the first ever decline in civics classes. reading and math scores also falling by the largest amount ever recorded. joining us now is carrie, works as a chief learning officer at the national constitution center in philadelphia. carrie, thank you for joining us on this. looking at the numbers here, right? and it s not just what you logically think being the effects of the pandemic because of these scores and how these students are performing. you look at, since 2014, right, this percentage has been dropping pretty steadily, where students are performing below, quote unquote, basic on history exams. what do you make of some of the reasons why this is happening? i m really glad to be here, i m glad you pointed that out to. so often we think, oh, it s
out of reach. i think that as a parent, now i will look to my kids more closely when it comes to intellect stuff saying do i want or need to spend $300,000 on you for college or are you a trade school guy. or, son, you would lock great in a uniform. you have to look to the early traits to see is the investment worth it. dana: and what about innovation? because you can learn so much online today. if someone had focused on that, if you could create curriculum like listening on podcasts or youtube, things that we did not have. i will tell you now, had you told me that it would cost me $300,000 to go to a school, i likely would have gone the military route. luckily for me, i was an athlete and did not have to worry about those things. but as a middle-class family, that is a daunting number. i look to that number and i m turned off by that. i would look to other things. if you could home school college, sure, why not. if i could stay on my couch and do my history exams, i would do
just sold his company to yahoo for tens of millions of dollars. not bad. someone still in high school. nick joins me now. what can you say? now you re a 30 million dollar kid. i know you can t talk about the specific figures. this must feel surreal, doesn t it? it s been an amazing journey for the past two years. i can t wait to continue it at yahoo. you bought a new sweater. yeah. not this one, but yeah. you had been playing around with a few programs. tell me about the moment you thought of sumly. it basically aggregates news stories down to 400 words, in a way kids can understand it. when did you have the idea? it was when two years ago, when i was 15. i was reviewing for history exams in the u.k., i was using google and there s all this information. i thought, if you could get a
yeah. not this one, but yeah. you had been playing around with a few programs. tell me about the moment you thought of sumly. it basically aggregates news stories down to 400 words, in a way kids can understand it. when did you have the idea? it was when two years ago, when i was 15. i was reviewing for history exams in the u.k., i was using google and there s all this information. i thought, if you could get a summary of the content it would help you decide what you want to read. you can take any long form content and automatically summarize it into paragraphs. it s amazing. at the age of 15, a hong kong billionaire invested $300,000 into that. he was followed by ashton kutcher, yoko ono, steven fry and so on.