Jane Elliott is 84 years old, a tiny woman with white hair, wire-rim glasses and little patience. She has been talking about how ridiculous it is to judge someone based on the color of their skin for ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can watch the program here on this web site and you can also purchase a videotape through ShopPBS for Teachers. Have other films been made about Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed lesson in ...

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 ...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Third grade teacher Jane Elliott was badly shaken by the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968. “I thought he could change things,” Elliott ...

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 ...

Before anti-racist reading lists and Instagram allyship, white people were presented with the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise. Its 86-year-old creator can’t believe she’s still being asked about it.