Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teacher and diversity trainer Jane Elliott talks about her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise," the construct of race and what ...

In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like. Iowan Jane ...

Mrs. Roseman, my sixth grade teacher, wanted to teach us a lesson one day in 1976. It was based on a famous exersize called "blue eyes, brown eyes,'' designed in 1968 by Jane Elliot, an Iowa third ...

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 ...

BRANFORD — Internationally-known anti-racism educator Jane Elliott, best known for her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” classroom exercise in the wake of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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 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, ...