Herein lie the ironies: In the same week that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy was honored with a federal holiday, the Florida Department of Education rejected an Advanced Placement African-American ...

SACRAMENTO — There is new controversy over the California curriculum, and a new course is required in high school classrooms across the state. New legislation is proposing what can be taught in ethnic ...

On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences ...

Protests from San Francisco teachers and principals in June saved a required ethnic studies class in public schools from being shelved. But some parents are still complaining, saying that the course ...

I am a white student at Hereford High School — statistically the whitest public high school in Baltimore County — and when I signed up for an Advanced Placement African American Studies class, I was ...

Some high school students will have the chance to take a new Advanced Placement course this school year. The College Board, which oversees the instruction of college-level courses in high schools, is ...

The school year is coming to a close and with it, the first year of Advanced Placement African American studies, an interdisciplinary class by the College Board that has attracted praise from ...

Schools in Georgia can now use state funding to offer the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course following a reversal of the state school superintendent’s decision to make ...