The controversy around the College Board’s A.P. African-American Studies Course, which was targeted by Republican politicians in Florida seeking to restrict its contents, resulted in a version that ...
The new course will undergo a pilot program in 60 schools, as the debate over how to teach history becomes ever more divisive. By Anemona Hartocollis The College Board is jumping into the fray over ...
In the early 2000s, when I was a student at Ridge View High School, in Columbia, South Carolina, I loved to parse the legacies of certain historical figures: W.E.B. Du Bois, in AP US History; Malcolm ...
Darren Williams, a teacher at McLain High School of Science and Technology in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pointed a wooden ruler at one of four questions in red on the dry-erase board in his classroom. “Question ...
As of May 2021, CU Boulder has established the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS and also referred to as “the Cause”) to support teaching and research on the history and culture ...
When I ducked out of my 8 a.m. class at Morrison Hall because of a scratchy throat, I visited the first floor kitchenette and encountered a bulletin board with the photos of the recent concentrators ...
One of Frazier’s goals was to attract the segregation academy’s highest achievers by offering advanced-level courses for college-bound students. “The district estimates an increase of about 75 ...
Students at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky., initially signed up for an African American literature and film class this year. But after English teacher Ahenewa El-Amin got the support of her ...
The Little Rock School District in Arkansas said on Wednesday that it would continue to offer Advanced Placement African American studies, over the objections of the administration of Gov. Sarah ...
Faculty in Saint Louis University's Department of African American Studies draw expertise from a variety of academic disciplines at SLU, including the arts, English and communication, history, ...
Darren Williams is one of two teachers in the Tulsa school district who signed up to teach the pilot version of the Advanced Placement African American Studies course this school year. During a ...
Writing and editing the Advanced Placement course framework was a tense exercise in a polarized America Feb. 19 at 6:00 a.m. A politically charged adjective popped up repeatedly in the evolving plans ...