At the u. S. History advanced placement tests. We have to guess who are also coauthors. Jason stacey is a history professor at Southern Illinois university and edwards, phil and Matt Ellington is a High School Teacher at Iowa High School in chino hills, california. These two gentlemen are all also the coauthors of this book, fabric of a nation a history with skills and sources for the ap us history course. Matt ellington what is advanced placement history . Well, hello, thanks for having us on again. Peter advanced placement. Us history is a Program Designed by the College Board in coordination with universities and School Districts, and its an opportunity for students in high school to push themselves by taking a course that is equivalent in terms of the skills and the rigor to the kind of course they would take in college. So ap was history is fundamentally designed to be similar to in terms of the scope of the content and the skills that students need to be successful in it to a two
Pleasure of serving as congresswoman alma adams first legislative director and help get the hbcu caucus started and amazing to see all that the congresswoman and staff have done since then. Today you all are joining us for a really important conversation about the ways at that government, philanthropy and business can support our hbcus and sustaining them into the future and with that im going to invite the congresswoman up to get us started. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon. Im still hbcu strong. Thank you all for being here today and thank you shaniqua and thank you all for joining us. Im congresswoman alma adams and it is my pleasure to represent the 12th Congressional District in North Carolina, charlotte, mecklenburg, and cabarras county. Give it up for the queen city. [applause] i want to thank especially our same guests who will participate on todays hbcu brain trust. Id like to thank the members of the first bipartisan hbcu tour here. When i started this caucus eight y
In North Carolina, charlotte. A special yeah. Give it up to the queen city. I want to thank especially our esteemed guests. I would lick to thank the members of the first bipartisan here. When i started 8 years ago, i had no idea that we would grow to have more than 100 members but now 8 years in i know that the strength is a strength of how much support we had. Last year we were about to get ignite funding for hbcu through appropriations. Because of the work that we did, 50 million in grants are available to our schools. All right. [applause] make transformative investment and, of course, this includes research productivity, fact ultimatey expertise, graduate programs. Human capital leading to external funding. The investments made in our schools today in investment in the future and so i just yaws myself as an example. I am a living testament for importance of hbcu. My mother raised me. She did domestic work. She was not formally educated but understood the value of education and the
Little bit of tension we believe that is activates a better product so you can respond do you want to respond go ahead. Well, you make a good point were discussing the Regulatory Compliance component in addition to the score card in the entire section with the Community Type with the combfrments take the engagement and really something with trader but this is an outdoor side above and beyond what the policies say. Thank you thanks were working on it as a district so thank you for that clarification. Sorry i have two questions so why are we are doing this just for the two schools are they the ones that need chinese we call them a general templates with all the comploents according to federal regulation they need to have and when we look at the template we thwart it and sometimes they leave outs language their reviewed for a federal program and looking at those 20 20 and felt they will left out the components. Does that mean all the other schools whether or not this language is in all th
All right. So i also want to thank everyone for waiting and sharing with us tonight are i nodded that was a late meeting and moved outside but you expressed our gratitude were not able to speak we thank you for your patience with us i wanted to because of a lot of the questions and things weve heard and heard leading up to tonight have lead to concerns about both how this program will operate and perhaps what some of the consequences abowill be how students awill react and effect the culture of the middle school i wonder if you might lay out how this in practice we are talking about the misinformation but perhaps specifically because this is the one with Public Meeting were having and talking about the need for more transparency and openness how we communicate if you could explain how this program will operate in practice and why were deciding to step up to the middle school i know were talking about the resear research but not all have that in front of them lay that out and how to add