{"id":2622,"date":"2016-08-28T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2016-08-21T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:41:05","slug":"is-lecture-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2016\/08\/is-lecture-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Is lecture discriminatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture is, perhaps, the most time-honored method of college instruction out there. It would seem to create the perfectly level playing field: every student hears the same lecture and every student has the same opportunity to pay attention and learn. But perhaps not? A\u00a0<strong>Gray Matter<\/strong> column in the Times (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/are-college-lectures-unfair.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Are College Lectures Unfair?<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, 12 Sept 2015) presents findings that suggest that lecture-style courses, when compared to active learning courses, put &#8220;female, minority, low-income and first-generation&#8221; students at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture is, perhaps, the most time-honored method of college instruction out there. It would seem to create the perfectly level playing field: every student hears the same lecture and every student has the same opportunity to pay attention and learn.&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2016\/08\/is-lecture-discriminatory\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Is lecture discriminatory?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}