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=__Jane Elliott__=

This exercise changed her life, both as a teacher and personally. Her reflections on what she had witnessed would influence how she would approach race relations and teaching. **“She had not told her pupils to treat each other differently, only that they were different; and yet they developed the characteristic responses of discrimination. Jane Elliott felt that they did this because they had already absorbed discriminatory behavior from their parents and other adults.”**
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Jane Elliott is considered to be the “foremother” of diversity training.

=__Linda Darling-Hammond__=

Linda Darling-Hammond is author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than 300 articles on education policy and practice. Her work focuses on school restructuring, teacher education, and educational equity.

Darling-Hammond has been engaged in efforts to redesign schools so that they focus more effectively on learning and to develop standards for teaching. As Chair of the Model Standards Committee of the [|Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)], she led the effort to develop licensing standards for beginning teachers that reflect current knowledge about what teachers need to know to teach diverse learners.