Have class discussions or writing assignments that include diverse perspectives (different races, religions, genders, political beliefs, etc.)?
First, let us note the usual bureaucratic inability to use English. “How often do students in your section engage in class discussions” would work. So would “How often do students in your selected course section have class discussions.” But “How often do students engage in . . . have class discussions” is a grammatical train wreck. You’ll see lots of this in what follows, but I thought I should point it out once. One could also point out that a race itself is not part of the same category as a “perspective,” and that the same could be said for a gender or a religion; rather a member of a race might have a perspective, as might a person of a particular gender. “Etc.,” in the above list is meaningless. It may seem like I’m nitpicking, but the mental confusion displayed by the question is part of the ether pumped out of Schools of Education, into my campus, by way of the administration, and it broods over us like the fog from Bleak House. Believe me, our own school of education can do eno
