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U.S. History Scores for 8th Graders Plunge

By: Sarah Mervosh — May 4th 2023 at 19:50
The latest test results continue a nearly decade-long decline. Try a sample quiz to test your knowledge.

The dip in civics performance was the first decline since the test began being administered in the late 1990s.
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Margot Stern Strom, Anti-Bigotry Educator, Dies at 81

By: Richard Sandomir — April 1st 2023 at 16:31
She started an organization whose curriculums challenge teenagers to understand the roots of the Holocaust, racism, apartheid and other human injustices.
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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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1776 Is Not Just What Ron DeSantis Wants It to Be

By: Jamelle Bouie — February 28th 2023 at 14:56
The question is not which allies he hopes to empower or which elections he hopes to win, but what order he hopes to create and usher into being.
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Who’s Afraid of Black History?

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. — February 21st 2023 at 01:38
Ron DeSantis should be careful of the company he keeps.

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Who’s Afraid of Black History?

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. — February 18th 2023 at 19:21
Ron DeSantis should be careful of the company he keeps.
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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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Erasing Black History Is Not the Role of the College Board

By: Mara Gay — February 6th 2023 at 22:16
The way forward is confronting this history, not wishing it away.
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