Editing Jane Elliott (section)

==Early life and career==
Elliott was born in 1933 to Lloyd and Margaret (Benson) Jennison on her family's farm in or near [[Riceville, Iowa]]. She was the fourth of several<!--Smithsonian Mag says 5; UI Papers says 7--> children.<ref name="Bloom">{{cite journal | last = Bloom | first = Stephen G | author-link = Stephen G. Bloom |date=September 2005 | title = Lesson of a Lifetime | journal = [[Smithsonian Magazine]] | url =http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lesson-of-a-lifetime-72754306/ | access-date = January 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Papers">{{cite web|title=UI Collection Guides -Jane Elliott papers, 1968–2011|url=http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?IWA0832|publisher=[[The University of Iowa]] Libraries|access-date=April 19, 2017}}</ref>

In 1952, after graduating from [[high school]], Elliott attended the Iowa State Teachers College (now the [[University of Northern Iowa]]), where she attained an emergency elementary teaching certificate in five [[Academic quarter (year division)|quarters]]. In 1953, she began teaching in a one-room school in [[Randall, Iowa|Randall]].<ref name="Papers" />