{"id":1264,"date":"2012-04-11T19:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1264"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:44:29","slug":"diversitys-benefits-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/04\/11\/diversitys-benefits-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity&#039;s Benefits in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Richard N. Pitt and Josh Packard, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2012.01235.x\">&ldquo;Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions,&rdquo; <em>The Sociological Quarterly<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Colleges and universities all tout the value of diversity on campus, but what&#8217;s the real payoff? This brand new study finds that in classroom discussions African American students are more likely to invoke media depictions of race\/religion and describe unique personal experiences with them, thus enriching and expanding the quality of teaching and learning on these topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard N. Pitt and Josh Packard, &ldquo;Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions,&rdquo; The Sociological Quarterly, 2012 Colleges and universities all tout the value of diversity on campus, but what&#8217;s the real payoff? This brand new study finds that in classroom discussions African American students are more likely to invoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[641,37333,144],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","tag-diversity","tag-race","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}