Cultural Competence

As our world becomes increasingly more diverse, it is important for children to develop the knowledge of and comfort with people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. And yet research suggests that less than 35 percent of our youth possess this skill, often called cultural competence

 A Class Divided

This is one of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history. It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.