Editorial: Skirmish over AP course raises questions — again — about College Board’s mission
LA TimesStudents at Belmont High in Los Angeles are cheered on as they prepare to take the SAT exam, which is administered by the College Board. The College Board has provided several explanations of how the AP African American studies course was developed over several years, each time causing critics to sink further into disbelief. The board administers SAT college entrance exams, and it oversees dozens of AP courses and tests that allow high school students to earn college credit. Because AP classes are considered prestigious on college applications, high schools have an incentive to offer them and students to take them, which gives the College Board enormous power over what is taught in classrooms. The AP African American studies course has put the College Board under a spotlight — and that’s good.
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Georgia schools chief reverses African American studies ‘mistake’
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Black history class to undergo changes, College Board says
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