"Black children grow up accustomed to such behavior ... "Mention two words—Jane Elliott—and you get a flood of emotions from people," says Jim Cross, the Riceville Recorder's editor these ...

Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April ... I was happy. The brown eyed children were hot shots; I felt good inside. On Monday I felt mad because I was being discriminated against ...

Jane Elliott is 84 years old ... through a bold exercise to teach them about racial prejudice. She divided the children, who were all white, by eye color, and then she told the children that ...

In 1968, Jane Elliott was teaching a class of 8 ... in the new millennium behaved no differently from children in 1968. Elliott has made a few tweaks to the experiment itself.

You may not know Jane Elliott by name, but you likely have heard of the blue eyes/brown eyes experiment, which has been performed on hundreds of thousands of children and adults across the United ...

CORWITH --- Forty-five years after she conducted the first blue eyes-brown eyes exercise in her third-grade classroom, Jane ... Elliott. "It absolutely sickened me," she said. Children wrote ...

By Brianna Holt The day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the schoolteacher Jane ... it,” Ms. Elliott said. “If I had known that our four children would ...

At age 89 Jane Elliott has lost none of her feistiness ... In too many schools across the country, she said, the children aren’t learning the truth. “We’re refusing to let students learn ...