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Test Scores for U.S. 13-Year-Olds Show Lowest Math and Reading Levels In Decades

By: Dana Goldstein — June 21st 2023 at 21:13
The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The last time math performance was this low for 13-year-olds was in 1990.
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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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In Post-Roe World, These Conservatives Embrace New Benefits for Parents

By: Dana Goldstein — February 14th 2023 at 20:06
Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening.

“The work of the family is real work,” said Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar who calls herself a pro-life feminist and has written influential essays and books.
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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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Inside the College Board’s Revised African American Studies Curriculum

By: Dana Goldstein — February 2nd 2023 at 02:34
A guide to some changes in the curriculum, and how the new course differs from standard treatments of Black history in American high schools.

An entire unit on “the origins, mission and global influence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Movement for Black Lives” has been deleted from the 2022 framework.
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Inside the College Board’s Revised African American Studies Curriculum

By: Dana Goldstein — February 2nd 2023 at 02:34
A guide to some changes in the curriculum, and how the new course differs from standard treatments of Black history in American high schools.
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