DeSantis and the College Board

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Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Stanley Kurtz joins the Mark Bauerlein to discuss three recent National Review articles on the AP's African studies program, the AP's marxist teachers guide, the College Board's ultimate capitulation.

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Mark Bauerline with another conversation. Before we get to it, a word about one of our sponsors.
0:23.2	Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,
0:28.7	an accredited four-year Great Books Institution, is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.
0:36.2	The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition, the the freedom of the American West. The college offers its students an
0:37.7	immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition, the grandeur of the mountain
0:41.8	wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the
0:45.9	illumination of imagination and intellect through the great books and traditional disciplines,
0:49.7	literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none.
0:56.7	The college celebrated an in-person graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed its largest
1:02.7	freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's unique space in the world of American
1:07.3	higher education at Wyoming Catholicatholic.edu.
1:17.1	Stanley Kurtz is with us again to speak about education issues, as he has a few times before,
1:23.8	this time about an episode really involving the AP, which he's covered for many years,
1:27.0	and what happened down in Florida. Stanley does have a PhD. He is now a fellow
1:32.3	with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He's the author, too, of many books and articles.
1:38.6	But we'll just get right to it. Welcome, Stanley. Mark, thanks so much for having me.
1:43.2	Now, you've written a piece, a few pieces now at
1:46.0	National Review covering this controversy, which started with the release of a new AP course in
1:52.0	African American Studies. When did this first come to your attention? Well, the college board,
2:00.0	Mark, has been keeping, had been keeping the curriculum of its pilot AP African American Studies program, a secret.
2:10.1	But I managed to obtain a copy of this secret curriculum last summer.
2:18.3	And in September of 2022,
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