#CollegeBoard sends student #SAT scores and #GPA to #Facebook and #TikTok, according to tests by tech news outlet Gizmodo. Whether a student is acing their tests or struggling, Facebook and TikTok get the details. Even when searching for #colleges, personal #academic details are shared with #socialmedia companies https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

The #CollegeBoard Tells #TikTok and #Facebook Your #SAT Scores

Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares #GPAs, #SATscores, and other data with big tech.
#privacy #studentprivacy #students #satscores

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

The #CollegeBoard, a powerful nonprofit, has been waging war w/ the administration of Gov Ron #DeSantis, a #Republican, since earlier this year when his admin rejected the College Board’s new #AfricanAmericanStudies course. The #curriculum included topics such as “#QueerStudies,” #reparations & the #BlackLivesMatter movement, & the admin objected, citing a #FloridaLaw limiting how #racism & other aspects of #history are taught in #PublicSchool.

#APPsychology #FLDOE #Education #Discrimination

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

The #CollegeBoard Says #APPsychology Is ‘Effectively #Banned’ in #Florida

“To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either #FloridaLaw or #CollegeRequirements,” the College Board said.

#FLDOE #Education #Heterosexism #Hate #Discrimination #Censorship #Indoctrination #ThoughtControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons, College Board says

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/08/03/florida-bans-ap-psychology-over-gender-identity-sexual-orientation-lessons/

#FloridaBansAPPsychology #GenderIdentityLessons #SexualOrientationLessons #CollegeBoard #PsychologyEducation #FloridaEducation #Politics #News

@sonyasteele

Oh no! The #collegeboard haz a *sad* :(

Florida's fascist government is deliberately setting out to keep their children poor and stupid and turn their state back into a life-sucking swamp unfit for humans, and the people who create and are supposed to uphold modern educational standards are... SAD. FFS.

#desantistan #florida #education

The kerfuffle over the whole "slavery taught valuable job skills" thing in Florida is an excellent example of why "facts only" history isn't history at all. (That's not what either side was going for, but it applies nonetheless.)

It's quite possible to make statements which are factually defensible but which - without careful context and interpretation - spread destructive falsehoods.

History requires context and interpretation, just like so many other things. Our obligation is to be as fair and objective about how we manage this as possible - not to throw stuff out there and simply accept whatever narratives are formed by those who pick and choose to serve their own agendas.

Did some enslaved individuals learn skills they were able to use for their own benefit to some degree in some way at some point? Yes. Was anything about slavery beneficial to those enslaved? No, not in the least. Both of these can be true at the same time - with a little context and the willingness to explain it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/college-board-pushes-back-on-florida-work-group-member-who-likened-new-black-history-standards-to-ap-curriculum/ar-AA1eEC0n

#slavery #history #education #desantis #florida #CollegeBoard

TITLE: DeSantis Kicks Off Feud Over College Board’s AP Psychology Class—Gender & Sexual Orientation Issues

Thank you Dr. Pope:

-- Forwarded --

Politico released an article: “DeSantis kicks off feud over College Board’s AP psych class—Florida school districts had raised questions about an AP Psychology “learning objective” that covers gender and sexual orientation.”

Excerpts:

The College Board has rejected changing a high school Advanced Placement psychology course’s lessons on gender and sexual orientation, in a direct challenge to Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration that could reignite conflict between the education giant and the presidential hopeful.

Florida school districts had raised questions about an AP Psychology “learning objective” that covers gender and sexual orientation, the College Board acknowledged Thursday, after the DeSantis administration expanded restrictions and regulations on classroom instruction in April.

<snip>

It is unclear whether Florida will now block the AP psychology course from classrooms, the College Board told educators.

“Please know that we will not modify our courses to accommodate restrictions on teaching essential, college-level topics,” the board said Thursday in a letter... “Doing so would break the fundamental promise of AP: colleges wouldn’t broadly accept that course for credit and that course wouldn’t prepare students for success in the discipline.”

The latest fracas between Florida and the College Board stems from a recently revamped state rule that expands legislation — panned as the “Don’t Say Gay” law by its critics — to restrict classroom instruction on sexual orientation or sexual identity to all K-12 students...

<snip>

On May 19, Florida’s education department pressed the College Board to review all of its courses to determine if any “need modification to ensure compliance” with Florida laws and regulations by this week. “Some courses may contain content or topics prohibited by State Board of Education rule and Florida law,” the state wrote to the board in a letter obtained by POLITICO.

The College Board retorted that its psychology lessons should remain unchanged, signaling a shift in how it will address Florida’s legal demands following this year’s battle over its proposed African American Studies course.

“The learning objective within AP Psychology that covers gender and sexual orientation has specifically been raised by some Florida districts relative to these recent regulations,” the board wrote to Florida officials. “That learning objective must remain a required topic, just as it has been in Florida since the launch of AP Psychology more than 30 years ago.”

Cassie Palelis, press secretary for the Florida Department of Education, said Thursday that the College Board is responsible for ensuring that their submitted materials comply with Florida law.

“We applaud the College Board for standing up to the state of Florida and its unconscionable demand to censor an educational curriculum and test that were designed by college faculty and experienced AP teachers who ensure that the course and exam reflect the state of the science and college-level expectations,” American Psychological Association CEO Arthur Evans Jr. said in a statement.

Florida’s objections to the AP African American studies course angered many Black leaders nationwide...

“We don’t know if the state of Florida will ban this course,” the College Board said of AP Psychology in a message to educators and schools. “To AP teachers in Florida, we are heartbroken by the possibility of Florida students being denied the opportunity to participate in this or any other AP course.”

The College Board also had a message for all educators: “Please know we will not modify any of the 40 AP courses — from art to history to science — in response to regulations that would censor college-level standards for credit, placement, and career readiness,” the board said. “We are resolute in this position, in part, because of what we learned from our mistakes in the recent rollout of AP African American Studies.

Florida is creating its own high-level courses and exams to rival the nationally recognized AP courses. State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to spend a combined $2.8 million developing a homegrown program and, in another challenge to the College Board, paved the way for students to use the Classic Learning Test, or CLT, as an alternative to the SAT and ACT.

Ken Pope

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Forwarded by:
Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

#lgbt #lgbtq #bannedbooks #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #culturewar #doctors #medicine #ACA #APA #NASW #bluestate #redstate #USA #politics #AP #CollegeBoard#gender #sexualorientation

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

College Board says it won’t alter AP courses to comply with Florida’s laws

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4051993-college-board-says-it-wont-alter-ap-courses-to-comply-with-floridas-laws/

#TheHill #CollegeBoard #APcourses #FloridaLaws #EducationNews #CurriculumControversy #Politics #News

#CollegeBoard Re-Revises its #BlackHistory A.P. Course https://politicaliq.com/2023/04/26/college-board-re-revises-its-black-history-a-p-course/ #APstudies #SATs #Florida #DeSantis #politicaliq #news #politics

#CollegeBoard to Make Changes to #BlackHistory AP Course https://politicaliq.com/2023/04/25/college-board-to-make-changes-to-black-history-a-p-course/ #BannedBooks #BlackLivesMatter #LGBTQ #RonDeSantis #politicaliq #news #politics

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

Over 3000 signatories so far.

"As academics, artists, advocates, policy-makers, and concerned persons from different parts of the world, we emphatically oppose the attacks being waged on educational curricula in the United States and elsewhere against intersectionality, critical race theory, Black feminism, queer theory, and other frameworks that address structural inequality. We join the thousands of signatories who have opposed censoring critical content in public and higher education. We also agree with the 30 Black LGBTQ organizations that have denounced the “relentless attacks that have led to book banning, curriculum censorship, politically motivated purges of educators, and an exodus of skilled teachers.” …

"When the College Board finally made public its long-awaited African American Studies course on February 1, students were left with a watered-down curriculum that expunged key lessons, scholarship, and course goals from previous drafts of the course. Contemporary issues such as structural racism, Black Lives Matter, reparations, and prison abolition—issues that resurfaced during 2020’s reckoning with anti-Black racism and increased student demand for African American studies—were reduced or eliminated. Lessons and course goals pertaining to intersectionality, Black queer studies, and Black feminism had been removed entirely or downgraded to untested optional material, subject to state and local censors …

"Contrary to “anti-woke” propaganda and the College Board’s conclusion, intersectionality is a vibrant and organic conceptualization of historical and social dynamics. In its most basic form, intersectionality is a prism that uncovers how structures of subordination often interact, exacerbating the problem-solving challenges faced by those who are multiply marginalized …

"We cannot expect anyone—students or ourselves—to understand problems we are no longer permitted to name or to prepare for a future we cannot imagine. The fight for our ideas, our language, and our history is critical to the fight for our lives. Thus, we demand that the College Board restore critical concepts, scholarship, and frameworks to the African American Studies course, and to resist pending demands from other states to bend to their “anti-woke” orthodoxy."

#Intersectionality #BlackLivesMatter #AntiBlackness
#CriticalRaceTheory #BlackFeminism #QueerTheory
#AfricanAmericanStudies #CollegeBoard

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-on-fighting-anti-woke-censorship-of-intersectionality-and-black-feminism

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

"The Columbia University and UCLA law professor and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum thinktank, believes that the escalations against racial history teaching, in Florida and elsewhere represent “the tip of the iceberg” of rightwing efforts to retract the progress since the civil rights era and push America towards authoritarianism.

"“Are [schools] on the side of the neo-segregationist faction? Or are [they] going to stick with the commitments that we’ve all celebrated for the last 50, 60 years?” Crenshaw asked, referring to headway made on equal opportunities since the 1960s.

"“The College Board fiasco, I think, is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of interests that have to make this decision,” she said …

"Even apart from outrage at states moving to ban the [College Board Advanced Placement] course outright, if the edited version ends up being the course’s final form when it is set to launch fully in 2024, Crenshaw cautions that states teaching the significantly pared-down version will see its students earning the same credits as those studying the fuller version that includes the kind of contemporary and intersectional material she views as vital.

"Making such core topics optional “is exactly the same structure of segregation”, she said. “It’s like ‘we’re going to create this so that the anti-woke [camp] will permit states to decide whether they want the segregated version, or whether they want a more fully representative and inclusive version,’” said Crenshaw."

#KimberléCrenshaw
#CriticalRaceTheory #Intersectionality #BlackLivesMatter
#AfricanAmericanStudies #CollegeBoard
#Florida #DeSantis #AntiBlackness #Racism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/critical-race-theory-kimberle-crenshaw-segregation-us-democracy

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-mulls-classical-christian-alternative-to-sat-and-act-testing_n_63f12f44e4b0a1ee14944541 Florida Mulls 'Classical' Christian Alternative To SAT And ACT Testing. The College Board's standardized tests are the latest target of Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign against the organization.

DeSantis is working to create stupid people in Florida. For “classical” you can substitute “white” and it reads the same. #sat #act #education #florida #desantis #collegeboard

Yeah, it's probably about many hours past time to look lots more closely at the #collegeboard. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/02/college-board-ap-florida-curriculum.html

This #DeSantis attack on #CollegeBoard is a win for both. DeSantis gets to look tough against Woke by bullying one of the most profitable, least woke non profits in the country.

Meanwhile, College Board, whose brand was in trouble since most universities have stopped using the SAT as a requirement (which is why they're expanding the useless AP), and whose brand needed to be cancelled years ago for being a lightly white supremacist wealth extraction engine, is being defended by liberals. JFC.