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I am a retired teacher who taught AP art history for more than 20 years and AP world history for six. These are not AP U.S. history, but there are similarities. The courses are generally Eurocentric, but they are evolving over time to be more inclusive.
Does Berlatsky think that we teachers are dull automatons who simply parrot textbooks, or that we have much personal choice regarding the approved textbooks for the courses? Does the author want his daughter to pass her AP courses and tests with high scores so she can get into the university of her choice? I assume so.
Written and produced by Kathryn Barnes Listen 13 min MORE Parents and caregivers have noticed their children and teens have become angry, anxious or stressed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are tools to address these mental health issues. Photo by Shutterstock.
About one in four children and teens have become angry, anxious or stressed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to a study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association in April, based on surveys from parents and caregivers.
“A lot of [teenagers] are experiencing multi-layers of symptoms, whether anxiety, depression, resistance, and avoidance,” says Raeleen Taylor, a licensed clinical social worker who works with high school students throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Republican-controlled legislatures in half a dozen states are taking up measures that would ban or limit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, a new front in the culture wars that is likely to expand far more broadly in the coming years.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) earlier this year became the first to sign legislation to withhold funding from schools that compel students to adopt viewpoints that are “often found in critical race theory.”
The Texas state Senate has passed similar legislation. The Tennessee state House advanced its own version through an education committee this week. And legislators in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona are working on bills that would impact the curriculum in public schools in their own backyards.