Category: Education

By Diane Ravitch, dianaravitch.com The College Board has not released the syllabus for the AP African-American Studies course that the state of Florida wants to ban because, they say, it has “no educational value” and violates state law by invoking “critical race theory.” But the syllabus was released by NBC News and is easily found on the internet. And here is the syllabus. I suggest that you read it for yourself. Stanley Kurtz, a conservative academic, wrote a scathing critique in National Review, where he blasted the AP course as “Neo-Marxist” and intent on propagating a socialist-Marxist-Communist mindset....