According to today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington State University’s College of Education has changed an evaluation form it uses to judge students’ aptitude to become teachers in response to complaints that the form discriminated against conservative teacher candidates:

The offending language:  students in training to become teachers must exhibit "an understanding of the complexities of race, power, gender, class, sexual orientation, and privilege in American society."

"They used that form to crucify me," Ed Swan, a bachelor’s candidate who failed the evaluation four times last academic year, said on Tuesday. Mr. Swan, 42, a self-described conservative Christian, put a public spotlight on his differences with Washington State last fall when he enlisted the help of a national free-speech advocacy group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in challenging some of the education school’s requirements….

The new language:  students in training to become teachers must exhibit "a willingness to consider multiple perspectives on social and institutional factors that can impede or enhance students’ learning."