Education

College Board responds to backlash over AP African American studies curriculum

5:00pm February 03, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with College Board CEO David Coleman and director of Advanced Placement African American Studies Brandi Waters about curriculum changes that have drawn criticism.

A teacher lines up the students for school-prepared lunches at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss. in 2019. The USDA unveiled new nutrition standards for school meals that would limit sugar and sodium.

The USDA wants to limit added sugars and sodium in school meals

2:03pm February 03, 2023

by Ximena Bustillo

The new standards, if implemented, would limit added sugars and sodium and emphasize whole-grain and domestically-produced products.

$4M grant is awarded to strengthen N.C. Family Child Care Home network

10:29am February 03, 2023

by Neal Charnoff

A $4 million Preschool Development Grant will benefit the state’s Family Child Care Home (FCCH) network, which provides care for about 8,000 children in home settings statewide.

Bobbi Wilson holds her collection of spotted lanternflies as she is honored at the Yale School of Public Health on Jan. 20.

Yale honors the work of a 9-year-old Black girl whose neighbor reported her to police

10:15am February 03, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

Bobbi Wilson went on a mission to save New Jersey's trees, capturing spotted lanternflies. That frightened her neighbor, who called the cops. Now, her bug collection is part of a Yale museum.

Education

Did the College Board cave to pressure to revise African American studies curriculum?

5:09am February 03, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Teresa Reed, dean of the University of Louisville's School of Music and a member of the committee that developed the College Board's AP African American studies class.

The U.S. college enrollment drop of the past several years is finally slowing

5:38pm February 02, 2023

by Sequoia Carrillo

New numbers from the National Student Clearinghouse show a years-long decline in college enrollment slowing down. Enrollment of first-year students increased across the board.

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Students from the A&T Four Middle College pose by February One Monument

Guilford County students honor legacy of the A&T Four civil rights activists

4:29pm February 02, 2023

by Amy Diaz

On February 1, 1960, four Black students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took a stand against segregation.

COVID's impact on classrooms will linger and must be addressed, according to teachers

4:19pm February 02, 2023

Teachers across the country are facing new obstacles in post-pandemic life as they try and shape young minds at the same time. We catch up with a group of educators to find out what's on their mind.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration rejected the original curriculum for the African American studies course in January.

College Board's revised AP African American studies course draws new criticism

7:20pm February 01, 2023

The organization released the new curriculum for the Advanced Placement course after Florida rejected the pilot. The revisions removed units on Black feminist literary thought and Black Lives Matter.

Encore: Gov. DeSantis is now looking to overhaul Florida's colleges and universities

4:57pm February 01, 2023

by Greg Allen

Board members appointed by Gov. DeSantis unveiled plans to reshape the New College of Florida. DeSantis wants to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs and limit tenure for professors.

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