A Class Divided
Description
After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., an elementary school teacher in a small Iowa town decided to introduce ideas about racism and discrimination to her all-white class. This classic Frontline episode recounts Jane Elliott's bold experiment and its provocative approach-awarding special privileges to her blue-eyed students while discriminating against those whose eyes were brown. The program tracks down Mrs. Elliott's former third-graders to learn what effect those early lessons about ignorance and injustice had on their lives.
Runtime
60 min
Subjects
- Effective teaching (271)
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) (73)
- Racism (548)
- Education (938)
- Child development (475)
- Prejudices (79)
- Educational psychology (148)
- Cross-cultural studies (31)
- Race discrimination (130)
- Ethnicity (289)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2009], c1985
Database
Films on Demand
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