This week we discuss challenges that may attend the eventual release of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. And, I recently spoke with Professor Mary Kate Blake of Valparaiso University about her recent paper titled “Other Duties as Assigned: The Ambiguous Role of the High School Counselor.” The paper is to be published in Sociology of Education.

Segment 1 -- Mary Kate Blake on “Other Duties as Assigned: The Ambiguous Role of the High School Counselor."

Segment 2 -- Causes and implications of the social capital deficit, and its import for COVID-19 vaccine utilization.