The College Board on Saturday accused the Florida Department of Education of 'slander,' after ongoing critiques of its AP African American Studies course, which was rolled out in a pilot program across 60 unnamed U.S. high schools this year.
Student Samaya Robinson, 17, holds a sign in protest of the district's ban of critical race theory curriculum at Great Oak High School in Temecula, California, on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.On Feb.
"In Florida's effort to engineer a political win, they have claimed credit for the specific changes we made to the official framework, none of which they ever asked us to remove, and most of which remain in the official framework," the College Board responded in its statement Saturday. the statement continued:"The College Board condemns this uninformed caricature of African American Studies and the harm it does to scholars and students.
FILE -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing House Bill 7 also dubbed the"Stop WOKE Act," at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022."We had no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida or any other state, nor did we receive any requests, suggestions or feedback," read the College Board's statement.
Henry-Louis Gates, Jr., one of the country's foremost experts on African American history — and who helped develop the AP African American Studies program — told "It is a mainstream, rigorously vetted, academic approach to a vibrant field of study, one half a century old in the American academy, and much older, of course, in historically Black colleges and universities," he said.
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