up. and i m just going to burst into tears because i m gonna miss mom and tots singing group on thursday. and that s when i made the call. i can t do this anymore. look, look how deep it is over here! i ended up as a single parent. and all that life on the road and learning how to organize and go places last-minute, deal with crisis, problem solving, troubleshooting, you know, pack, technical, adventure that made me a great single parent. no touching! the greatest gift i could give my son is that love of the unexpected and the love of adventure. [noise] this is christian maria and myself in london.
was declared, a pandemic right before school closures. we went back to 92% of the schools, and the students were struggling more to problem-solving. it s the gateway to more advanced data analysis skills that students will need, problem-solving skills that students will need as they enter into the higher elementary grades. so as we look at this, there s the one piece of, okay, how do we work to reverse this learning loss. how do we better serve our children across this country, pandemic or not? there s also the question of, you know, god forbid it should happen again but if there s a future outbreak, if there is some sort of a pandemic situation, is there a way to do things differently? well, you know, we ve already done a lot. the schools pivoted. they did a lot of changes in how they were administering