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Here is the AP African-American Studies Course That Florida Wants to Ban: by Diane Ravitch

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Dr Ravitch  taught the history of American education, and Iwrote books that specifically included the history of the education of Black Americans.  None of the uthors, like Frederick Douglass or Carter Woodson or W.E.B. DuBois or Booker T. Washington, should be excluded from a course like this. " the he course is not, as Florida officials claim, "leftwing indoctrination." 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.

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