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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve got to be carefully taught." Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan wrote the musical "South Pacific" (Broadway premiere1949), and it may be that activist and educator Jane ...