The new AP African American course rolls out amid growing fights over how history is taught in schools.
In a response to what they called “misinformation,” College Board officials clarified that the recently released framework “is only the outline of the course” and that such subjects are “optional topics in the pilot course.”
Teacher Joshua Castille talks to senior Kenneth Haggerty, 18, as he reads “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” during his Advanced Placement African American Studies class at KIPP Oak Cliff Academy in Dallas on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. “It holds space for them to learn history that traditionally we don’t get to dig really deep into,” Vann, 38, said.
Davis is “willing to fight” — like she did in 2019 — for the new AP course in Texas because she knows “there’s a hunger for that knowledge.”‘A dream come true’: African American studies course gets final approval to be offered across Texas
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