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Example number 1: Classroom

Jane Elliott, an elementary school teacher in 1968, sought to teach her


third-grade students about prejudice after the assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr. Her students lived in a rural town in Iowa that lacked
ethnic diversity. Instead of attempting to teach the power of prejudice
through a rote memory lesson, Elliott decided to use strategic thinking.
She divided the class into two groups: blue eyes and brown eyes. On
the first day, she told the class that the brown-eyed students were
superior. An immediate delineation fell upon the group with old
friendships severed and shocking comments from the children in both
groups. The following day, Elliott told the students that she had made a
mistake and that the blue-eyed children were superior. Suddenly, the
blue-eyed children were scoring higher on tests than the day before
and the brown-eyed children were earning lower scores. Fifteen years
later, when the PBS series "Frontline" conducted a reunion for the
students, they spoke of how profound the experience had been. In fact,
studies conducted 10 and 20 years after the lesson reflected Elliott's
students to be "significantly less prejudiced" than their peers did.

Example number 2:

A student confidently and correctly explaining exactly to his or her


peers the methodology used to reach a particular conclusion, or why
and how a certain methodology or standard of proof was applied.

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