{"id":1835840,"date":"2023-02-05T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835840"},"modified":"2023-02-05T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:41:51","slug":"ilya-shapiro-revised-ap-african-american-studies-curriculum-delivers-course-students-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilya-shapiro-revised-ap-african-american-studies-curriculum-delivers-course-students-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Shapiro: Revised AP African American Studies Curriculum Delivers Course Students Deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Filya-shapiro-revised-ap-african-american-studies-curriculum-delivers-course-students-deserve%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you are interested in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.org\/media\/pdf\/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Revision of the framework<\/a>\u00a0Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wouldn\u2019t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/desantis-ap-african-american-studies-program-violates-florida-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I object<\/a>\u00a0and the proposal wouldn\u2019t have become national news. The College Board, which administers AP exams and classes, felt the need for a red flag.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23584340\/ap-afam-syllabus-watermark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">These include \u201ctopics\u201d<\/a>\u00a0As intersectionality, queer studies, and Black Lives Matter in a class that should have ostensibly been high-concept historical classes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just three weeks after Florida education commissioner Manny Diaz said no to the proposed AP course, the College Board has pulled back on polarizing subjects\u00a0and divisive authors like\u00a0critical race\u00a0theorist Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw\u2014 which will now be available as areas for \u201cindependent research\u201d\u00a0Other topics include \u201cblack conservatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The course\u2019s development was clearly a response to the \u201cracial reckoning\u201d that followed George Floyd\u2019s murder, when institutional elites, already addled by the pandemic, adopted anti-racist missions. For its part, the College Board decided it needed to create a college credit class that was unlike any other.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apstudents.collegeboard.org\/course-index-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">35 It is already available<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 what its framework calls as \u201can interdisciplinary course that examines the diversity of African American experiences . . . with an emphasis on developing historical, literary, visual, and data analysis skills.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/ap-african-american-studies-01.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25618107\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25618107\" width=\"913\" height=\"1024\" 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50&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 45w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>The College Board modified the initial outline of its new AP African American Studies curriculum three weeks after it had released it. It now includes less polarizing topics and more ideological subjects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This course would be different from traditional AP courses like biology, calculus or Latin. It would include literature, history, and other aspects of African American culture. It would be the very first. \u201cstudies\u201d AP is not a traditional academic discipline, but it mimics identity-based departments that have proliferated across universities ever since the 1960s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All this was necessary to make sure that students are familiar with black history? It&#8217;s not, in a word. If you read the appendix to the College Board\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23584340\/ap-afam-syllabus-watermark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Original proposal for African American Studies<\/a>, \u201cthe top three historical developments represented on high school syllabi\u201d Slavery, the transatlantic slave trading and the civil rights movement. The AP U.S. History course can be found here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scott.k12.ky.us\/userfiles\/1339\/classes\/2659\/ap%20us%20hist.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">These and other related subjects are abundant in this site.<\/a>. Not everyone takes AP classes, but slavery and Jim Crow are also major components of standard history and social studies curricula\u2014regardless of the current debate over woke indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed,\u00a0DeSantis\u2019s infamous \u201cStop WOKE Act,\u201d This prohibits the teaching of critical race theory concepts in K-12\u00a0<em>Requires\u00a0<\/em>Classroom instruction \u201cthe history of African Americans, including the history of African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery, the passage to America, the enslavement experience, abolition, and the history and contributions of African Americans of the African diaspora to society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), on the day that Florida\u2019s rejection hit the news,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.edgepilot.com\/s\/807eb1dc\/jlvqopgVdEW0dypM5Io6Qw?u=https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBowman\/status\/1616225618730827779?s=20%26t=9cE4qtqSYgYeikXm6No40A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That was tweeted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cDeSantis wants to ban our history,\u201d He was either ignorant or disingenuous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/thurgood-marshall-02.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25618247\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25618247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/thurgood-marshall-02.jpg\" alt=\"The program&#039;s new framework, while clearly less political, still contains fraught topics such as \" intersectionality and activism \/><\/a><figcaption>The program\u2019s new framework, while clearly less political, still contains fraught topics such as \u201cintersectionality and activism\u201d Apart from the obvious omission of Thurgood Marsh, the first African-American Supreme Court justice. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But if you\u2019re still going to have an AP African American Studies course, what would you put in it? You&#8217;ll find it in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.org\/media\/pdf\/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Revision of the framework<\/a>,\u00a0with units on (1) early African societies, (2) the slave trade And abolition, (3) Reconstruction And black codes, and (4) the civil rights movement and modern black culture. You don\u2019t need an education doctorate\u00a0to recognize that you shouldn\u2019t give\u00a0trendy topics\u00a0like \u201cintersectionality and activism\u201d and \u201cthe reparations movement\u201d as much space as\u00a0weighty aspects of the American experience like\u00a0\u201cdisenfranchisement and Jim Crow laws\u201d and \u201cHBCUs and black education\u201d\u2014which is what the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23584340\/ap-afam-syllabus-watermark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Framework initial<\/a>\u00a0did.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The original idea was\u00a0surely\u00a0to advance theory and ideology, not history and culture. Although\u00a0some\u00a0remaining topics like \u201cgender and resistance in slave narratives\u201d\u00a0\u2014as well as the mind-boggling absence of both Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are still worrisome, with the ideological flourishes largely removed, opposition will likely melt away.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/jb-pritzker-01.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25618316\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25618316\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/jb-pritzker-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Progressive Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was one of many left-leaning leaders who lashed out at the course&#039;s redo, describing it as an appeasement to \" extremists \/><\/a><figcaption>Progressive Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was one of many left-leaning leaders who lashed out at the course\u2019s redo, describing it as an appeasement to \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But even as the College Board mollifies Florida\u2019s curriculum gatekeepers, it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/01\/us\/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It claimed that the changes it made were irrelevant<\/a>\u00a0With criticism from politicians, pundits. CEO David Coleman claimed that teachers had complained that secondary sources more theoretical were not being used. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.edgepilot.com\/s\/68890360\/HXALlzmWI0_krvZYK3uidg?u=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/01\/us\/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quite dense<\/a>,\u201d It was just poor pedagogically that the polemical stuff was used. The timing was curious, though, and yes, the polemical stuff was just as bad pedagogically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by reversing course\u2014for whatever reason\u2014the company quickly fomented left-wing backlash.\u00a0J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.edgepilot.com\/s\/c725486a\/v2AGIhTp1UW8tdZPofXVIw?u=https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPritzker\/status\/1618700911068717056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tweet<\/a>\u00a0that he wouldn\u2019t stand for \u201cwatering down our nation\u2019s history . . . . to appease extremists.\u201d Will the Land of Lincoln now refuse to follow the course?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/desantis-anti-crt-03.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25618385\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25618385\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/desantis-anti-crt-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Many are calling the College Board&#039;s rethink a win for Florida Gov. 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