Update. Leaked emails show that the #CollegeBoard lied about why it revised its #AP #AfricanAmerican studies course. Thanks to @holden for calling it out: "The corruption of the College Board is appalling. It simply cannot be trusted, and academia must stop relying on it to make important decisions about education."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4588

Supplicants to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis no longer: the #CollegeBoard announces it will revise the #AdvancedPlacement #AP course in African-American history. The board had tried to make the class more palatable to critics like DeSantis but faced the ire of scholars. #education https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/ap-african-american-studies-college-board.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

With all the news out about the #CollegeBoard recently, just a reminder #womenshistory is insufficiently covered in AP courses.. We are working to change that in proposing a full year course, please share and sign our petition and help us pass 1,500 signatures: https://www.change.org/apwomenshistory #histodons #sschat

The Sooner We Start Thinking of the College Board as a Business, the Better. #CollegeBoard #FollowTheMoney

It’s a not-for-profit. It’s not a charity. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/02/college-board-ap-florida-curriculum.html

“The #CollegeBoard is not revolutionary. It maintains the status quo in this country — the hierarchy, the formation. The question we have to ask ourselves is what is possible.” #Blackhistory #education #censorship #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us/ap-black-studies-course-college-board-desantis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Any agency or group that doesn’t totally agree with #DeSatan policies he seeks to get rid of them and replace him with his asslickers. Now, it’s the #CollegeBoard. #Autocracy at its worst. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article272474953.html

Update. The #CollegeBoard argues that it did have good academic reasons to revise its #AP #AfricanAmerican Studies course. Admits that it botched the rollout. Condemns the right-wing political pressure from #Florida. Says that the degree to which its new course satisfies Florida objections has been exaggerated.
https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/our-commitment-ap-african-american-studies-scholars-and-field

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

-- The College Board

#GOPAppeasers #EducationTraitors
#CollegeBoard

A letter from the Florida Department of #Education to the #CollegeBoard made public today suggests discrepancies in the College Board's statement that it did not bow to political pressure in revising its Advanced Placement, African American history course for high schoolers. #AP #facts #reality https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/florida-college-board-african-american-studies.html

The Changes to AP African American Studies Are “Absolutely Political”: A Former College Board Worker Speaks Out
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-changes-to-ap-african-american-studies-are-absolutely-political-a-former-college-board-worker-speaks-out/
#AfricanAmerican #CollegeBoard #Education #AP

The College Board agrees with DeSantis that black history does not exist.

#BlackHistoryMonth #desantis #collegeboard

5. Polémique sur l'enseignement de l'histoire africaine américaine: indignation de nombreux historiens après la publication d'une version très édulcorée de la proposition de programme du #CollegeBoard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/02/college-board-ap-african-american-studies-criticism/

The #CollegeBoard caved in to the extremist right of #DeSantis and the #MAGA cult. They should have stuck to their principles and let Florida elect to reject or accept the AP course.
Their actions just encourage this cancer that has infected our country.

"Critics accused the [#CollegeBoard] of bending to political pressure."
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153364556/ap-african-american-studies-black-history-florida-desantis

Seriously, does anyone think the College Board spontaneously saw good academic reasons to revise its #AP #AfricanAmerican Studies course?

3. Au même moment le #CollegeBoard qui propose des programmes scolaires à l'enseignement secondaire, a dévoilé la version révisée de son cours d'histoire africaine américaine...un cours qui semble suivre les critiques réacs du gouverneur de Floride #DeSantis Le président du #CollegeBoard s'en défend
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/college-board-releases-african-american-studies-course-framework-after-desantis-criticism

#Florida is a #fascist, #racist state.

The #CollegeBoard Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for #AfricanAmerican Studies

After criticism from Gov. Ron #DeSantis of Florida, the official course looks different: No more #CriticalRaceTheory, and the study of contemporary topics — like #BlackLivesMatter — is optional.

https://nyti.ms/3wOL2D0

Shaking my head. Stripping important Black writers and ideas of today and yesterday—Ta-Nehisi Coates, bell hooks, Kimberlé Crenshaw, BLM, reparations—in order to cater to the momentary political needs of a fascism-curious Trump wannabe is the definition of cowardice. AP courses are supposed to push boundaries, not cave to the lowest common denominator. #Florida #DeSantis #CollegeBoard https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html

CW: racism

So the #CollegeBoard caved to "conservative criticism" of AP #AfricanAmerican studies and decided to make the announcement on the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth. Tossing a pacifier to DeSantis and other #WhiteSupremacists trying to erase #BlackLivesMatter and queerness. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/college-board-revises-african-american-studies-course-removes-black-lives-matter-from-exam

@geofisch Two things:

1) IMO even a mediocre college class is almost always more challenging & connected to academic disciplines than a HS class.

Relatives of mine insisted that their AP history courses were just like college courses--but they were textbook-based courses that didn't use primary sources. That's *really, really different* from college history courses I took!

2) Accepting #AP credits outsources college curricular decisions to the #CollegeBoard--& boy do we see the problem there

This seems like a great time for colleges to stop giving credit for high school classes with a test attached.

(All APs—not just Af-Am studies, which students should not have a special lack of incentive to take)

Any good analyses of how this would affect affordability? How many low-income students use AP credits to cut down on overall tuition expenses? Because I’m quite serious about wanting this to be a moment where we get rid of this thing.

#CollegeBoard #AP #racism

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html