Re: discrimination experiment

[Debbie Athanases <athanasd@BELNET.BELLEVUE.K12.WA.US>]

The video A Class Divided (it was a Frontline program) is in the current
PBS catalog.

On Mon, 23 May 1994, Marilyn Weber wrote:

> I've been reading all the responses to your question about the experiment
> with the "blue eyes/brown eyes".  I think I can add to the information you
> already have.
>
> The experiment was first done by Jane Elliot in Riceville, Iowa with her
> 3rd grade class.  The first video produced was called "Eye of the Storm"
> (Zenger, 1970).  A follow up video was produced, "Class Divided" (PBS,
> 1985) that looks at the long term effects of the lesson on the children.  I
> have heard that Jane Elliot now travels widely doing workshops dealing with
> topics like this.
> Marilyn Weber
> Loess Hills AEA13
> Box 1109
> Council Bluffs, IA  51502
> (712) 366-0503
> mweber@po-1.star.k12.ia.us
>