sociologist David L. Brunsma

The RIM network builds on the cross-disciplinary work of researchers in public health, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, communications and other fields. This is because the founding researchers noted the work already being done in these fields that conceptualized how race impacts areas such ...

In perhaps what was the largest study, conducted over 10 years by Virginia Tech professor David Brunsma, uniforms were found to have no significant effects on attendance, grades or behavior. In an April 2017 blog post, Galen Sherwin, a senior staff attorney at the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU, ...

David L. Brunsma, PhD, Professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), co-authored a study that analyzed a national sample of 10th graders and found "no effects of uniforms on absenteeism, behavioral problems (fights, suspensions, etc.), or substance use on ...

As sociologist David L. Brunsma details in his 2004 book The School Uniform Movement and What It Tells Us About American Education, uniforms worn by children at the time were “designed to emphasize the lower status of the children who wore them — the charity children.” Later, the British education ...

David L. Brunsma is a professor of sociology at Virginia Tech University. His Twitter handle is @brunsma. David G. Embrick is an associate professor of sociology at the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. His Twitter handle is @dgembrick. James M. Thomas is an assistant professor of ...

The idea of school uniforms can be vilified on principle, especially when some students are suspended from class due to "inappropriate dress." ... there will always be naysayers, according to David Brunsma, a sociologist who wrote "Uniforms in Public Schools: A Decade of Research and Debate" in 2005.

CENTRAL FALLS — The Central Falls school district has embraced mandatory school uniforms for all students this fall, an initiative that has received ... Despite the popularity of uniforms among teachers and parents, David Brunsma, a sociology professor at Virginia Tech, said, “After 15 years [of research], ...

But it is being implemented in a racist fashion,” said David L. Brunsma, professor of sociology at Virginia Tech, who's written extensively about school uniforms. “Uniforms within the public school system have actually ended up being a kind of marker of disadvantage. Meanwhile out in the suburbs or the ...

And some argue school uniforms are an all-around boondoggle. David Brunsma, a sociology professor at Virginia Tech, has studied the issue and wrote a 2004 book called The School Uniform Movement and What It Tells Us about American Education: A Symbolic Crusade. His research from national ...