Christopher Munn, “Finding a Seat at the Table: How Race Shapes Access to Social Capital,” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 2019 Originally published April 22, 2020. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously proclaimed that Sunday mornings contain the most segregated hour in America. MLK was talking about churches in 1960. Today, a […]

Mirjam Ghassemi, Katharina Bernecker, and Veronika Brandstätter, “ake Care, Honey!’: People Are More Anxious About Their Significant Others’ Risk Behavior Than About Their Own,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020 2020 has given us a lot to worry about from climate crisis, wildfires, superstorms, earthquakes, various elections near and far, to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Brian R. Fitzpatrick and Sarah Mustillo, “The Right Fit? Classroom Mismatch in Middle School and Its Inconsistent Effect on Student Learning,” Sociology of Education, 2020 The practice of placing students in classes below or above their ability level is called mismatching–and while it may sound bad, it is often done deliberately and can be beneficial. […]

Not all students experience an event or situation the same, because students have different resources and baseline stressors to begin with, and therefore trauma differs among them. Having a trauma-informed classroom is thus about listening and centering the actual students you have in your classroom.