Sentences with phrase «about class bias»

Not exact matches

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

While unconscious race and social class biases were present in most trauma and acute - care clinicians surveyed about patient care management in a series of clinical vignettes, those biases were not associated with clinical decisions, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

Nor, as Frederick Hess explains, is there any scientific evidence that requiring teachers to have certain views about «sexuality or social class» ensures that they teach all students: «Screening on «dispositions» serves primarily to cloak academia's biases in the garb of professional necessity.»

Given that a majority of teachers hail from a middle class European - American background, the biggest obstacle to successful culturally responsive instruction for most educators is disposing of their own cultural biases and learning about the backgrounds of the students that they will be teaching.

Below, two members of our network describe how they have used two of the titles on the Social Justice Book List to help students check their assumptions and biases about race, immigrants and social class.

Brill is a fan of Shanker as an education reformer (and says nice things about my biography of Shanker), but throughout the book, Brill unfortunately voices much of same class bias reflected by NEA members.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

No one likes doing personal budgets and when we hear of somebody referring to their «budget», we often conjure up biased thoughts about how the person must be «poor» or «low class».

About Blog This blog is no longer devoted exclusively to discussion of class bias in higher education although it is pervasive.