Are #APClasses a Waste of Time?
#AdvancedPlacement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond #highschool. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/173547/ap-classes-waste-time-annie-abrams-education-book-review

Roll-Back Advanced Placement is a call for curricular sanity. Time to end bad pedagogy, inappropriate lessons and profiteering. https://tultican.com/2023/08/29/roll-back-advanced-placement/ #AdvancedPlacement

#News: #Arkansas Dept of #Education has pulled a #AdvancedPlacement credit for #AfricanAmericanStudies. #Republican Gov #SarahHuckabeeSanders says "We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students & push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate America & hate one another."

EXCEPT that's what the #Republicans are doing!!! I wrote an essay on the #GOP #CultureWar #politics, #BlackHistory #ColorblindRacism, being #woke or #antiwoke, #DiversityandInclusion, & more

https://www.facebook.com/thedavid.mfano/posts/pfbid0igTwSth8cPq3rAfuDdsnEXDUx72XW7zsAvbHuSo3ZewGxnQk4AqAYVozdJaYjiyQl

#LittleRock School Dist. in #Arkansas will continue to offer #AdvancedPlacement #AfricanAmericanStudies, over objections of Gov #SarahHuckabeeSanders’ admin, a #Republican who has limited instruction on #race.

The decision comes after the State Dept of #Education announced on Mon that the course’s content might violate a new #law banning “indoctrination” in #schools.

#Racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/little-rock-ap-african-american-studies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

AP Psychology Redux in Florida: in a “no-win” situation, state’s largest #school districts won’t offer the course that touches on restricted material on sex and gender after confusing chain of events. I wonder what’s going to happen to Florida #students when they go to #college. I wonder. #education #AdvancedPlacement #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/09/florida-schools-drop-ap-psychology-class/

If #psychology is #woke, does that mean #AntiWoke is psychotic? Makes sense to me.

#ChristianPrivilege #fascism #Authoritarianism #ChristoFascism #AmericanTaliban #RightWingExtremism #ConservativeChristians #transphobia #lgbtqia #homophobia #education #advancedplacement

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5yZJ9RtLw&feature=share

Under an expanded #Florida rule, instruction on #GenderIdentity & #SexualOrientation is now restricted in most cases through 12th grade. The #FloridaDepartmentOfEducation had asked the #CollegeBoard & other providers of advanced, college-level courses to search their offerings for potential violations.

But the College Board said that it would not modify its content, & that any course that did not address gender & sexual orientation should not be labeled “#AdvancedPlacement.”

#FLDOE #Education

In a statement Thursday, College Board shared parts of a letter its representatives sent to #Florida Governor #RonDeSantis' administration saying the group would not alter its #psychology course’s curriculum to remove references to #SexualOrientation and #GenderIdentity. The move follows the #Republican administration's push for #CollegeBoard to sanitize parts of its #AP #AfricanAmerican #History course.

#AdvancedPlacement
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#VoteBlue

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/college-board-desantis-ap-psychology-rcna89726

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

While written in couched terms, the #CollegeBoard’s statement appeared to acknowledge that in its quest to offer the course to as many students as possible — including those in conservative states — it watered down key concepts.

#APAfricanAmericanStudiesCourse #Education #Whitewashing
#AdvancedPlacement #AP

The #CollegeBoard said on Mon that it would revise its #AP African American studies course, < 3 mos after releasing it to a barrage of criticism from scholars, who accused the board of omitting key concepts & bending to political pressure from Gov Ron #DeSantis, who had said he would not approve the curriculum in FL.

#Education #Whitewashing
#AdvancedPlacement
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/ap-african-american-studies-college-board.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Guardian has published the most recent letter against the censorship of intersectionality and Black feminism in the AP African American Studies course by College Board. Please distribute and sign on!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/anti-woke-censorship-colleges-open-letter

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

Is there any published list of the literature that was dropped by the College Board from the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum? I would like to get ahold of that literature and read it.

#BlackMastodon #AdvancedPlacement #APAfricanAmericanStudies

I don’t agree with John McWhorter. An #AdvancedPlacement #AP course is supposed to offer college level work for college credit. Surely critical race theory, reparations would come up in a college level course. I taught African American lit at the college level (sophomore) and discussions on police brutality, what amounts to CRT and intersectionality happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/desantis-may-have-been-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Here’s Linguistics Professor and New York Times columnist John McWhorter’s take on the #AP #AdvancedPlacement African American studies course; he sees reason to omit critical race theory, reparations, other fraught words and topics. #education https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/desantis-may-have-been-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This article includes a chart of the specific words and names of people--scholars and historical figures--that were in the #AP #AdvancedPlacement African American history course and whether they were removed or improved as the course was revised. #education #censorship #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/ap-african-american-studies-controversy/

@JaneRLaForge I have not reviewed the course material. I was concerned with *have read the #news that there is critical race theory in #AdvancedPlacement African American class*

I am skeptical when CRT is sited by opponents. It is a phrase that is used as a catch all for *woke* and anything not supporting the narrative of the nationalistic view of history.

A critical view of history is healthy. Not that I support texts by Howard #Zinn in high school.

Haven’t seen or read the course materials, but have read the #news that there is critical race theory in #AdvancedPlacement African American class, so 4 more states are joining Florida to make sure the class is copacetic. #education #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom #facts #reality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/18/states-review-ap-african-american-studies-class/

Hey folks. Please have a look at this new letter to College Board by African American Studies scholars from across the country. It's a clear statement against the censored African American Studies AP course with a list of clear and actionable demands.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/a-call-to-the-college-board-to-restore-the-integrity-of-the-ap-african-american-studies-course-2

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

DeSantis threatens to rid Florida of #AdvancedPlacement #AP classes #education #collegecredit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/14/desantis-florida-ap-classes-college-board/