The lesson in question can be found at the bottom of page 6 of the document, with the code "SS.68.AA.2.3." This means it is a lesson for students in sixth to eighth grade, taught as part of the curriculum's "African American History Strand," or category. The lesson ask...
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Trump’s latest indictment, criticism of his campaign and the controversial Florida Black history curriculum Black groups, including the largest Black fraternity announced that they will pull their conventions out of Florida over its "harmf...
Harris told a Jacksonville crowd last week that Florida’s new state-wide Black history curriculum replaces "history with lies," setting the tone for liberal pundits and reporters to scold Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Harris claimed middle-school students in Florida will be "told that enslaved...
At the beginning of February, the College Boardreleasedits official AP African American Studies course curriculum. The curriculum, however, had been revised from thepilot programthat the College Board launched last August. Thisrevised curriculumno longer includes topics that were seen as controversi...
American Studies course is the College Board's first new offering since 2014, according toTIME, and will cover more than 400 years of African American history. It had been in the works for over a decade before its initial pilot, and the curriculum will span several topics, including ...
“laws that are hostile to the LGBTQ community, restrict access to reproductive health care, repeal gun safety laws, foment racial prejudice and attack public education by banning books and censoring curriculum.” Just this month, DeSantis signed several bills that criminalize transgender individuals...
Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum: Effects of Within-School Segregation on Adolescent Health Behaviors and Educational Aspirations OBJECTIVES: We examined the extent to which within-school segregation, as measured by unevenness in the distribution of Black and White adolescents across ... KM Walse...
Opponents contend Common Core includes inappropriate curriculum that is being forced on states. Florida adopted Common Core in the 2000s under Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who was a strong proponent. But it dropped Common Core in 2020 under DeSantis, who said it was being replaced by "Common Sen...
“The state of Florida education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching Black history,” DeSantis said last week. “All the important things, that’s part of our core curriculum.” Indeed, Florida has required its schools to teach African American history since 1994, lon...
But the College Board says these lessons are a core component of the AP Psychology course and have refused to change the curriculum. Ad Feedback On Thursday, the College Board announced that unless AP Psychology is taught in its entirety – including lessons on sexuality and gender –“the “...