Classroom Drama

A U. of Michigan program uses theater to teach professors sensitivity to women and minority groups

On stage in front of several hundred professors at the University of Wisconsin's Union Theater, "Ross," a graduate teaching assistant, is running into problems in her introductory statistics class.

She has just introduced a graph plotting infant-mortality rates against mothers' incomes as part of a lesson on statistical correlation. In a matter of moments the class spins out of

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