March 10, 2006
Education School Revises Policy on 'Dispositions'
Washington State University's College of Education has revised a form that it uses to evaluate students' dispositions to become schoolteachers, one that, in its previous version, had led to complaints of discrimination against political conservatives.
The previous 10-point "professional dispositions evaluation" form required, among other things, that students in training to become teachers exhibit "an understanding of the complexities of race, power, gender, class, sexual orientation,
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