{"id":8275,"date":"2026-02-23T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:59:24","slug":"clippings-february-23rd-2026-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2026\/02\/23\/clippings-february-23rd-2026-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | February 23rd, 2026 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Leana Cabral<\/a> (Researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University) wrote an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about anti-Black attitudes in elementary and middle schools in Philadelphia. From interviews with current and former Black students across three generations, Cabral found that students consistently described feeling like their white teachers had low academic expectations of them, they received harsher punishments than non-Black students, and that they \u201chad to work twice as hard\u201d as white students. Cabral also found that some students experienced classrooms that \u201caffirmed their Blackness and did instill in them a sense of pride,\u201d primarily in schools with a majority of Black teachers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Leana Cabral<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ProPublica<\/em><\/a> ran an article describing how immigrants face harsher sentencing than U.S. citizens. The article cites Michael Light<\/a>\u2019s (Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin) research on citizenship and sentencing in California and Texas. In Texas, Light found that noncitizens received 62% longer sentences than citizens with the same charges and similar criminal records.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Michael Light<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reformed Journal<\/a> <\/em>featured Ryan Burge<\/a>\u2019s (Professor of practice at the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis) new book, The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us<\/em><\/a>. The book discusses the \u201chollowing out\u201d of American religious life as a space to find belonging and community \u201cno matter how much or how little one believed in Jesus Christ that particular Sunday.\u201d Burge argues that \u201cAmerican religion has become an \u2018all or none\u2019 proposition\u2014conservative evangelical religion or none at all,\u201d leaving little space for theological or political moderates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Burge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programing is often criticized as politicizing workplaces, Celina McEwen<\/a> (Senior Researcher in Sociology of Work at the University of Technology Sydney), Alison Pullen<\/a> (Professor of Gender, Work and Organization at Macquarie University), and Carl Rhodes<\/a> (Professor of Business and Society at the University of Technology Sydney) argue that DEI is \u201cfailing because it refuses to be political at all.\u201d In an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, they discuss three common shortcomings of DEI programs: 1) treating people as categories, 2) treating diversity as a \u201ccheckbox,\u201d and 3) avoiding substantial discussions of power.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Celina McEwen<\/a>, Alison Pullen<\/a>, and Carl Rhodes<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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