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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a journalism professor and author of a book on race that spans more than 50 years, I’ve watched these developments with great ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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