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This Great and Complicated Place

This Great and Complicated Place Rich Perez

Episode 6 | 50 min

Disinvestment or Design: When a City Decides what a Child is Worth

This episode examines how physical spaces and policy decisions affect educational access and opportunity.

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This episode examines how physical spaces and policy decisions affect educational access and opportunity. Through personal stories and expert perspectives, we explore how neighborhood design, resource distribution, and historical patterns of inequality have shaped and continue to shape education in our communities.

“This Great and Complicated Place” is a production of Christianity Today Media and supported in part by Stand Together Trust and The Fetzer Institute.
Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper
Host: Rich Pérez and John Onwuchekwa
Producer: Rich Pérez and John Onwuchekwa
Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens
Video producer: Rich Pérez

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