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RUTH LATHAM

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Raw average: 3.75/5 from 4 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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EPS570 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Office hours are a must. Discussion based class with very fair grading. Ruth is inspiring.
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EPS570 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 1/5
Pretty good class... Very good Lecturer... and you always have one or two very eloquent classmates you can learn from during class discussion.
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570 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
As a Black adjunct, she called out the students of color one by one to give the "colored perspective." Is this good teaching? or ignorance?
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570 · course not matched
Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
this adjunct teaches that schools marginalize students of color. yet she did the same thing to students in her class.
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Classes with RUTH LATHAM

No teaching recorded in Fall 2026.

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Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2014ANTHRO/EDPOL 570Anthropology and Education
Fall 2013ANTHRO/EDPOL 570Anthropology and Education
Fall 2013EDPOL 300School and Society
Fall 2013EDPOL 399Independent Reading
Spring 2013ANTHRO/EDPOL 570Anthropology and Education
Fall 2012EDPOL 200Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education

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