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U.S. History Scores for 8th Graders Plunge

By: Sarah Mervosh
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.

Margot Stern Strom, Anti-Bigotry Educator, Dies at 81

By: Richard Sandomir
She started an organization whose curriculums challenge teenagers to understand the roots of the Holocaust, racism, apartheid and other human injustices.

The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

By: Anemona Hartocollis · Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul
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.

Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies

By: Dana Goldstein · Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis
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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