{"id":333875,"date":"2017-11-07T03:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T02:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-male-students-called-on-last-in-some-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T03:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T02:56:29","slug":"white-male-students-called-on-last-in-some-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-male-students-called-on-last-in-some-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"White, Male Students Called on Last in Some Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>\u2018Progressive stacking\u2019 not new, not isolated to Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The backlash may be new, but the method is not. Controversy erupted recently after tweets from an Ivy League teaching assistant\u00a0showed her admitting\u00a0she only calls on white male students as a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always call on my black women students first. Other [people of color] get second tier priority. [White women] come next. And, if I have to, white men,\u201d University of Pennsylvania teaching assistant Stephanie McKellop tweeted in October.<\/p>\n<p>McKellop\u2019s tweets spotlight a method known as the \u201cprogressive stack\u201d in which speaking priority is given to minority voices while those deemed as having privilege must wait their turn.<\/p>\n<p>McKellop\u2019s comments ignited a firestorm over the controversial teaching method and prompted her university to look into the situation, but a\u00a0College Fix\u00a0review of online documentation shows McKellop is far from the first instructor to employ the \u201cprogressive stack\u201d in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Use of the progressive stack, which is lauded by advocates as amplifying oppressed voices and criticized by others as discriminatory, has been used in college classrooms for years, and has roots in liberal activism.<\/p>\n<p>The College Fix\u00a0review found several instances in which scholars have engaged in the practice. Additionally, a sociology professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/10\/20\/penn-grad-student-says-shes-under-attack-teaching-technique-encourage-all-talk-class\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0Inside Higher Ed\u00a0progressive stacking dates back at least a couple decades.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to\u00a0The College Fix, University of New Mexico&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/white-male-students-called-on-last-in-some-classrooms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Progressive stacking\u2019 not new, not isolated to Penn The backlash may be new, but the method is not. Controversy erupted recently after tweets from an Ivy League teaching assistant\u00a0showed her admitting\u00a0she only calls on white male students as a last resort. \u201cI will always call on my black women students first. Other [people of color] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}