Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting
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Elliott, Jane, 1933-Community Elementary School (Riceville, Iowa)Eye of the storm (Motion picture)Discrimination Study and teaching (Elementary) Iowa EvaluationRace discrimination Study and teaching (Elementary) Iowa Evaluation
In 1970 Jane Elliott, a public school teacher in Iowa, divided her all-white third-graders into blue and brown-eyed groups for a lesson in discrimination. On successive days, each group was treated as inferior and subjected to discrimination. This documentary reunites the teacher and class after 15 years to relate the enduring effects of their experiment
