TheAPprogram, which gives high school students an opportunity to take college-level courses before graduation, currently covers38 subjects, including English literature and composition, U.S. government and politics, statistics, and art history. The AP African American Studies course is th...
Singleton, who has taught at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles for 26 years, challenged his students on their own perceptions of history.
AP courses produced by the non-profit College Board are taken at high-school level and are widely accepted as college-level credits. The new addition will be “an unflinching encounter with the facts and evidence of African American history and culture”, said the board’s chief executive, Dav...
In 2005, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission mandated that all high school students take a newly developed African American history (AAH) course as graduation requirement beginning with class of 2009, after 40 years of community request for such a course. Through a qualitative case study ...
Yale University offers a free course, called “African American History: From Emancipation to the Present,” which covers many key events in black history from 1863 to the present day. The recorded lectures cover the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, ...
“state legislative efforts to restrict teaching about topics such as race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities in K–12 and higher education”—this year alone. Earlier this summer, for example, the Oklahoma State Board of Educationdowngraded the accreditation statusof two school...
During junior high school. When we went to junior high school, there was the music teacher there. Her name was, don't remember the first name, but Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. Hubbard, because I played violin, and I danced, even in junior high school for programs and assemblies. More I...
American history and culture to students across the country."TheAPprogram, which gives high school students an opportunity to take college-level courses before graduation, covers38 subjects, including English literature and composition, U.S. government and politics, statistics and art history.The AP ...
"We are committed to providing an unflinching encounter with the facts and evidence of African American history and culture," the company said. It remains unclear what the changes are or when they will be made public. The course gained national attention this winter when Florida Gov. Ron DeSan...
And Deeper The 10 Greatest B*tch Slaps in Movie History 21 Ruby Bridges Chaz Monet, Penelope Ann Miller, Michael Beach 18 votes This film presents the real-life tale of young Ruby Bridges (Chaz Monet), one of the first African-American children to attend an integrated school in the Deep ...