The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...
Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the... We Are Repeating The Discrimination Experiment ...
Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known classroom experiments to combat racism remains a divisive subject more ...
Several of my colleagues who know I am a product of Iowa sent me this LA Times article on Jane Elliott. Her name may not be immediately familiar to you and you might not recall that she came from Iowa ...
The teacher has taught kids new ways of thinking and is now ready for adults. A 52-year-old social experiment has gone viral. Archival footage from 1968 soon found itself in feeds after the death of ...
Blue-eyed children were given special privileges, while brown-eyed children had to sit in the back of the classroom and couldn't use the same drinking fountain as blue-eyed classmates. Her experiment ...
Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student ...
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...
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