After College Board, the educational monopoly that oversees college prep, SAT and PSAT testing, and AP courses for high schoolers, submitted its experimental Advanced Placement course on African-American Studies to state leaders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected the curriculum for use in public schools in the Sunshine State last week. DeSantis called the curriculum a violation of state law due to its reliance on critical race theory. As my colleague Joy Pullmann has argued in these pages, every conservative state leader should do the same.
The apparent critical race theory course masquerading as AP African-American Studies isn’t College Board’s only foray into politics. Pullmann noted that its other history courses, including European, United States, and World History, have been “infused with identity politics and anti-American and anti-Western readings of history,” according to a report published by the National Association of Scholars. College Board has also launched a feature toying with its SAT test metrics to reflect students’ “privilege,” slapping an “adversity score” onto student test results to reflect factors such as income and neighborhood crime.
College Board has a monopoly on AP exams (in addition to the SAT, perhaps the most commonly administered college entrance exam ). So where does that leave high school students and their parents, who want access to the potential college credit that AP courses provide but don’t want to sign up for the left-leaning propaganda that worms its way into College Board materials?
Most colleges require at least a score of 3 or higher
