The “jigsaw classroom,” originally designed to reduce racial tensions in newly desegregated school districts in the 1970s, demonstrates ____
a. ?the effectiveness of cooperation in reducing prejudice
b. ?that working independently, but side by side, eliminates prejudice
c. ?the role of in-group thinking in reducing prejudice
d. ?that prejudice in the classroom no longer exists
ANSWER:
a
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