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☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Florida Schools Question Content on Gender and Sexuality in A.P. Psychology

By: Dana Goldstein — June 15th 2023 at 21:44
The embattled College Board said it would not change the course.

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, has threatened to reconsider his state’s relationship with the College Board.
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Florida Rejects Dozens of Social Studies Textbooks, and Forces Changes in Others

By: Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein — May 9th 2023 at 20:29
The state objected to content on topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, socialism and why some citizens ‘take a knee’ during the national anthem.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has campaigned against what he has described as “woke indoctrination” in the classroom.
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Florida Will Review Social Studies Textbooks for ‘Prohibited Topics’

By: Sarah Mervosh — March 20th 2023 at 16:07
Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks.

A current first grade history lesson in use in Florida.
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The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

By: Anemona Hartocollis · Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul — February 13th 2023 at 20:20
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis’s state officials, who asked whether the course was “trying to advance Black Panther thinking.”

There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.
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Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies

By: Dana Goldstein · Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis — February 10th 2023 at 01:57
A letter from state officials is likely to fuel controversy over the College Board, which has been accused of stripping or minimizing concepts to please conservatives.
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Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies

By: Dana Goldstein · Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis — February 10th 2023 at 01:57
A letter from state officials is likely to fuel controversy over the College Board, which has been accused of stripping or minimizing concepts to please conservatives.

In January, demonstrators in Tallahassee protested policies restricting how issues of race are taught in Florida schools, including the decision by the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis to reject a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies.
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