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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Iowa teacher became famous for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that had children experience prejudice on a personal level. Jane Elliott was a 3rd grade teacher working in Riceville in 1968 when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...