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Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Social Sciences, Science, Performing Arts

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

There's a core belief embedded in the story of the United States — the American Dream. Today we look at the state of that dream as we revisit our 2018 conversation with economist Raj Chetty. We'll ask some questions that carry big implications: can you put an economic value on a great kindergarten teacher? How is it that two children living just a few blocks from each other can have radically different chances in life? And what gives Salt Lake City an edge over Cleveland when it comes to offering people better prospects than their parents?

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0:00.0	From NPR, this is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:04.1	The week has just begun in Keystone, Iowa.
0:07.8	We're here to bear witness to a family meeting, an intervention, if you will.
0:12.7	It got kind of rough towards the end of the week, didn't it?
0:15.0	We didn't feel like such a family, did we?
0:17.3	Rachel Cruzey is running this meeting.
0:20.2	The other participants are gathered around her in a circle.
0:22.6	A couple of them fidget, but most listen attentively.
0:25.6	So on Friday, we decided that today we needed to have a family meeting.
0:30.6	All right, so this weekend I found this book, and it's called It's Mine.
0:35.6	So when I read this book, I want you to think about how last week went and how this week could go.
0:42.3	This family meeting is taking place in a kindergarten classroom in a rural part of eastern Iowa.
0:48.3	Rachel is the teacher, and the lesson she wants to share is one that could have a lasting impact on her students.
0:55.6	The story is set on an island.
0:58.0	On the island lived three quarrelsome frogs named Milton, Rupert, and Lydia.
1:03.1	They quarreled and quibbled from dawn to dusk.
1:08.2	Stay out of the pond, yelled Milton. The water is mine.
1:13.6	That's not nice?
1:16.6	Get off the island, shouted, Rupert. The earth is mine.
1:20.6	That's not nice.
1:22.6	It's not, is it?
1:23.6	Then a flood swallows up the island.
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