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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Journalist Bloom (The Audacity of Inez Burns) examines in this intriguing and evenhanded account the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Experiment” developed by third-grade teacher Jane Elliott in Riceville, Iowa ...

Jane Elliot is famous for the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise she carried out in her third grade Iowa classroom in 1968. It was just after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and she had had ...

(CNN) — Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Elliott, like many people across the US, was ...

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 ...

Jane Elliott, who adapted the "Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed" discrimination experiment for her classroom, presented the Multicultural Student Leadership Scholars Convocation addressing "The Anatomy of ...

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 ...