The Role of Friendship in the Education of Students

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David Frum: I was particularly intrigued when I read a recent findings by Raj Chaddee that talked about the importance of friendship. He says it's one of the key determinants of how well you can do in life is just who your friends are, like they're exposed to and their aspirations. And so speak more about that, about the role of friendship, and then how how segregation, racial and class segregation ends up creating this what he called this friendship bias.

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