AP African American Studies pilot debuts in 2022 /* full rollout in 2024-25 /* some states pull the plug at the last minute

[DrBanneker]

Debate over AP African-American Studies course in Virginia

WUSA9​

Feb 20, 2023
People are pushing back after Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said he wants state education officials to review an A-P African American Studies conever-ending

This is an OPTIONAL course. Schools don't even have to offer it. JFC they act Hannah N. Jones is writing the mandatory state curriculum.

 

[get these nets]

This is an OPTIONAL course. Schools don't even have to offer it. JFC they act Hannah N. Jones is writing the mandatory state curriculum.

Facts don't matter to the voters these politicians are doing this for. When facts don't matter, you can frame things any way you want to.
"They're indoctrinating our children. This is just the first step. Let's stop them now."

 

[DrBanneker]

Facts don't matter to the voters these politicians are doing this for. When facts don't matter, you can frame things any way you want to.
"They're indoctrinating our children. This is just the first step. Let's stop them now."

That was the argument in the National Review. They claimed this course opens the door to all kinds of woke study since the College Board is an 'unelected' body that is writing curriculum. So Womens and Queer Studies and woke indoctrination are supposed to follow on the heels of this.

 

[get these nets]

AP African American Studies Scholars to Make Changes to Course

Changes will ensure the course best reflects this dynamic discipline. Details of changes to be determined over the next few months.

newsroom.collegeboard.org

AP African American Studies Scholars to Make Changes to Course​

Changes will ensure the course best reflects this dynamic discipline. Details of changes to be determined over the next few months.

College Board

• • April 24, 2023

The Advanced Placement Program has worked for several years alongside scholars, higher education institutions, and secondary schools to create an AP course in African American Studies.

We are committed to providing an unflinching encounter with the facts and evidence of African American history and culture. To achieve that commitment, we must listen to the diversity of voices within the field. The development committee and experts within AP remain engaged in building a course and exam that best reflect this dynamic discipline. Those scholars and experts have decided they will make changes to the latest course framework during this pilot phase. They will determine the details of those changes over the next few months.

Ultimately this work must deliver a representative introductory college-level course, and that imperative will guide its development. Hunger for this course has exploded around the country, growing from 60 schools in the first pilot year to 800 schools and 16,000 students in the school year ahead. Every day, there are more stories about how this course is opening minds and changing lives. Regardless of how many students take this course, each one of those students should have access to the full breadth and beauty of this discipline.

In embarking on this effort, access was our driving principle—both access to a discipline that has not been widely available to high school students, and access for as many of those students as possible. Regrettably, along the way those dual access goals have come into conflict. The updated framework, shaped by the development committee and subject matter experts from AP, will ensure that those students who do take this course will get the most holistic possible introduction to African American Studies.

 

[get these nets]

Inside the African American studies class praised by some and fiercely opposed by others​

PBS NewsHour​

Jun 26, 2023
The school year is coming to a close and with it, the first year of Advanced Placement African American studies, an interdisciplinary class by the College Board that has attracted praise from professors and also fierce opposition from some Republican politicians. Laura Barrón-López spoke with educators, students and experts to understand the potential and the politics behind the course

 

[WTFisWallace?]

Inside the African American studies class praised by some and fiercely opposed by others​

PBS NewsHour​

Jun 26, 2023
The school year is coming to a close and with it, the first year of Advanced Placement African American studies, an interdisciplinary class by the College Board that has attracted praise from professors and also fierce opposition from some Republican politicians. Laura Barrón-López spoke with educators, students and experts to understand the potential and the politics behind the course

Starting the class off with reading The Miseducation of the Negro is heavy shyt.


Visiting local historic black spots around seems like a dope idea. I wonder how a class like that would incorporate Miami into its framework.

Edit: just looked up the school, Bishop O’Dowd….1) surprised it’s a Catholic school. 2) seems like a really great school, incorporating trips into the curriculum seems like a regular thing as well. Dope.

 

[get these nets]

4 states to review AP African American studies class amid Florida's ban​

Feb 18, 2023


Officials in Arkansas, Virginia, North Dakota and Mississippi said they had questions and planned reviews before deciding whether the new class may be taught in their classrooms.

Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute​

August 12, 2023

Word came Friday from distraught educators that a new Advanced Placement course on African American history was suddenly on the chopping block, just two days before the first bell of the school year was set to ring in Arkansas high schools planning to offer the class.
An official from the Arkansas Department of Education reportedly alerted high school teachers by phone on Friday that the class would not be recognized for course credit by the state in the 2023-24 school year. And unlike with every other AP class on offer, the state would not cover the $90 cost of an end-of-year test that gives students the opportunity to qualify for college course credit.

The College Board, which designs and administers AP exams, is currently piloting AP African American Studies at select U.S. high schools. Sixty schools around the country, including Central High in Little Rock and The Academies at Jonesboro High School, piloted the course last year. For the coming school year, the pilot program will expand to hundreds of schools, and students will test for college credit in the course for the first time in spring 2024.
Teachers at schools including Central High, North Little Rock High School, the North Little Rock Center for Excellence charter high school and Jacksonville High School prepared over the summer to offer the course in the upcoming school year. At least some of these teachers were at school prepping their classrooms and meeting with students and parents when they got the news from the state.


The full impact of the state’s move is still unclear. Teachers were reportedly told they could still offer the class, but the state will not recognize it on the same level as other AP courses. That may make African American Studies less attractive for students competing for top class rankings, who often seek out AP classes for the extra bump they provide to their GPAs (taking AP classes can shoot high-performing students above a 4.0). It could also have a chilling effect on other schools that might have been considering offering the course in the future.
The course will not count as a credit toward statewide graduation requirements, and students will have to pay their own test fees.


Oddly, no one at the Arkansas Department of Education answered phone calls or returned emails about the decision Friday afternoon, nor could they be reached Saturday. And because the phone calls about the last minute change went directly to teachers — bypassing district administrators and even principals — there was no paper trail to follow to figure out what was going on.
On Saturday morning, the state sent emails to district curriculum administrators letting them know the course would not be recognized. The terse email appeared not to be an official announcement but simply an alert to a change made in the education department’s course management system. The message indicates AP African American Studies was deleted from the state’s roster of offerings at 4:02 p.m. on the Friday before school starts for most public school students in Arkansas

 

[3rdWorld]

The mass migration to Red states may have to be reversed in light of these and other Republican cac shenanigans

 

[DrBanneker]

But I thought local control of schools was supposed to be the "liberty" thing. Why should the state be able to ban courses?

 

[DrBanneker]

The this steams me the more I hear about the backlash. This isn't about leftist bias, LGBT, etc.

 

[Lexington Steele]

But I thought local control of schools was supposed to be the "liberty" thing. Why should the state be able to ban courses?

"Freedom" to the conservatives means they are free to do absolutely anything they want but you must follow every rule they come up with. Remember those Bundy rednecks who tried to have a shootout with the police because they didn't want to pay to graze their cattle? "Law and order" is only for you, you non-white non-conservative probably secret Muslim like Obama guy.

 

[invalid]

Where is black local political participation in these states? The largest concentration of black people in the county and moves like this can be pushed through, without opposition, overnight?

 

[Voice of Reason]

The mass migration to Red states may have to be reversed in light of these and other Republican cac shenanigans

Nope we Foundational Black Americans need to flood the zone and fight for political power.

 

[jwinfield]

Where is black local political participation in these states? The largest concentration of black people in the county and moves like this can be pushed through, without opposition, overnight?

Arkansas is more than 70% white.

 

[get these nets]

But I thought local control of schools was supposed to be the "liberty" thing. Why should the state be able to ban courses?

What I want to know is, how far does this block extend?
Will the State System public colleges of these states accept the college credit for that course when a student enrolls (from another state)?

I'm assuming that they will block that as well.