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Today, Explained

The fight over AP African American Studies

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The College Board piloted an AP course on African American Studies. Then, after conservative pushback, it debuted a revised curriculum. But the group insists it’s not caving to political pressure. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted. We had help with today’s show from Sarah Darville, national managing editor for Chalkbeat.  Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tony Green, a high school teacher at Bishop O'Dowda in Oakland, was in Washington, D.C.

0:06.8

For a celebration of the brand new African American studies, a P course last week, when he

0:11.8

got word that some parts of the course had been changed.

0:15.3

Some sections revised.

0:17.5

Some conservatives had taken issue with those sections.

0:22.2

What this guy in Florida did is he just threw a monkey wrench into the works.

0:28.0

This guy in Florida is Governor Rhonda Santis and the college board aggressively denies

0:31.8

allegations that it bowed to political pressure.

0:34.7

We may never know what actually happened, but Mr. Green taught the original pilot course.

0:40.4

So what was in it, what's not now, and what is Mr. Green plan to do with what some people

0:46.0

have called a watered down curriculum?

0:48.4

Well, it's not really in his nature to back down.

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