MORE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration rejects African American AP course AP African American Studies received intense public scrutiny from some conservative leaders, such as Republican ...

An African American studies course taught at high schools is a fairly new phenomenon, happening just in the past five years. The elective class has been gaining traction so much so, that an AP ...

The AP African American Studies course had been piloted for two years in Georgia to strong student response. The news that Woods didn’t recommend it for approval broke as African American ...

AP African American studies is an "interdisciplinary course that examines the diversity ... Owoh recalled attending several days of students’ final presentations for the class and observing ...

Rashad Brown, an AP African American Studies consultant with the College Board who taught the pilot program at Atlanta Public Schools, maintains the course is robust. "We're talking about the ...

Georgia Superintendent Richard Woods has now reversed course on a controversial decision to halt state funding for the ...

Woods said today that parts of an AP African American Studies course – piloted for two years in Georgia and about to be offered in many more schools – violates the law. “As with most states ...

It always has. As a result, as of Aug. 7, educators in Georgia can offer AP African American Studies this school year in full using its own course code for state funding. The back and forth this s ...

has authorized South Carolina schools that offer an honors version of African American studies as an AP course if their syllabus follows college-level standards. They also will allow students to ...

Additionally, UC Scout is proud to offer AP African American Studies, the first-ever Advanced Placement course dedicated to Black history. The interdisciplinary course explores an array of topics ...

Roughly a year after the Arkansas Department of Education drew national attention by removing an AP African American studies class from its course code listings, the five school districts that ...