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  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    5/18/2023

    American Students Deserve Better than the AP System

    Annie Abrams: "If we want to expand access to college, why aren’t we doing that by employing Ph.D.s? If we want to support high school teachers and strengthen curriculum, why aren’t we fostering collaboration? Instead, we’re outsourcing that work."

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    2/24/2023

    The Bankrupt Vision of the College Board

    by Annie Abrams

    "We have endowed the College Board with the power to shape millions of minds with its profitable exams. In turn, it holds students hostage for college tuition, stifles teachers, and destroys space for debating difficult topics."

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    2/19/2023

    What Politics Kept In and Took Out of the AP Course

    The excision of terms like "systemic" from the AP African American Studies curriculum suggest either an idiosyncratic review process or an attempt to avoid the specific triggering keywords of the right's complaints about liberal education. 

  • SOURCE: Education Week
    2/17/2023

    What the Rejection of African American History Means for Students

    by Monica Washington

    When a state decides to minimize African American history and thought in its curriculum, it marks that history as "other" and denies all students the opportunity to understand the national past and the prospects for realizing democratic values in the future.

  • SOURCE: Miami Herald
    2/13/2023

    Latest from Florida: DeSantis Suggests State Can "Do Without" College Board

    Such a move would have serious consequences for the College Board's revenue, but also potentially hurt Florida high school students by depriving them of rigorous courses. Florida currently pays students' AP testing fees and has the fifth highest per capita rate of students taking AP tests.

  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    2/13/2023

    College Board Defends AP Course Decisions

    The Board stated that it regretted failing to make its disagreements with Florida's assessment of the course as lacking in educational value, and that it had betrayed the trust of scholars who had worked with it to develop the course. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    2/13/2023

    How the Rocky Road of AP African American Studies Passed through Florida

    The College Board, seeking to explain significant changes to the course's curriculum, maintained its denial that it did not make the alterations under pressure from Florida officials who, it said, showed “ignorance and derision for the field of African American studies.”

  • SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
    2/1/2023

    Organization of American Historians Statement on AP African American Studies

    "The OAH further rejects the characterization of these scholars and their scholarship as examples of “woke indoctrination,” and instead recognize them as central to the interdisciplinary research and teaching of African American history and culture, as well as American history more broadly."

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    1/30/2023

    Fear of a Black Studies Planet

    by Roderick A. Ferguson

    A scholar whose work was named in Florida's decision not to support the AP African American Studies course discusses a long history of conservative efforts to control textbooks and teaching and, failing that, to create politically useful hysteria about indoctrination.