Investing in Our Public Schools

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I think that our public schools are a public good that must be supported by everyone, regardless of whether we have children or whatever. So money, now money doesn't explain everything, it doesn't do it, but it's extremely important. Having said that, there are also things that we can do as individuals and as groups, like churches. There is an organization called Loving Houston whose whole goal is to really connect churches to schools in a way that is truly serving those schools. I think we should certainly afford to do a lot more of that.

Raise yourself up by your own bootstraps. This is a refrain we hear all the time, especially as Americans catechized in the dogma of personal responsibility. But what if some people don’t have bootstraps? What if some don’t even have boots?

This week David and Curtis welcome educational expert and Rice University sociology professor Ruth López Turley. Raised on the U.S./Mexico border, Ruth’s own educational story is fascinating and lends special weight to her observations about educational equity and how the scriptures (including Mary’s Magnificat) might lead us to some surprising and challenging conclusions.

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-$50M Kinder Foundation grant will expand Kinder Institute’s work to solve challenges facing Houston

-Claire Cain Miller, Josh Katz, Francesca Paris and Aatish Bhatia (The New York Times) - Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor

-Cynthia M. Allen - Want economic mobility? Make friends at church

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Produced by Kris Carter