GET ME REWRITE: The College Board celebrates its watering down of Advanced Placement curriculum for African-American studies

 

New York Times, 2/1/2023

After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies — stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives. 

The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum. 

And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project.