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 ...
Students in Jane Elliott's 1970 class line up for lunch during the "brown eyes/blue eyes" experiment. On this day, blue-eyed children were labeled the superior group, and were allowed to cut in line.
On April 5, 1968 — the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. — Rex Kozak ...
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 ...
Filmmaker Judd Ehrlich says Jane Elliott – the protagonist of his Sundance documentary Jane Elliott Against the World – is not one to self-censor. "She always speaks her mind. She always says exactly ...
RICEVILLE - The third-graders in Jane Elliott's Riceville classroom were scheduled to study an American Indian meditation on April 5, 1968. But the night before - after learning that civil rights ...