But how's the U.S.?

Yeah, it's a good question and a good place to start, although basically the only place you can get bigger than Texas is to count the entire country.

So the PISA results, which for folks who don't know, is sort of a national assessment of a group of or a group of countries that collaborate economically.

It's called the OCED.

Those results were released last week, and they are dismal.

Right now, in particular, on reading, you know, the U.S. has basically lost 25 years' worth of progress.

So, like, kids today are reading at the same level they were a quarter of a century ago.

relative to this issue?