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College Board to release framework for AP African American studies course on Feb. 1

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Students at a Milwaukee school say a pilot AP African American Studies course gives them a deeper look at their history. But it's facing backlash from conservative lawmakers elsewhere.

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In just a few days, the College Board will release its official framework for its Advanced Placement courses for African American Studies. The pilot version, currently taught at 60 schools across the country, became a target of some lawmakers who want to limit how teachers approach discussions about history and race. Emily Files from member station WUWM visited a Milwaukee high school that's offering the classes here.

EMILY FILES, BYLINE²: Golda Meir High School is located in downtown Milwaukee. Nearly two-thirds of the students here are Black. During a recent lesson in the new AP course, teacher Alex Janke pulls up a photograph of Jamaican activist³ Marcus Garvey. Garvey supported the Back to Africa movement in the 1920s.

ALEX JANKE: We've looked at this a couple of times throughout this class, right? We've talked about people who supported separatist ideas and people who supported more, like, accommodationist or integrationist⁴ ideas as well.

FILES: The class of 20 high school seniors reads a speech in which Garvey denounces European colonization⁵ in Africa. Janke asks what stood out, and student Mark Guerrero (ph) speaks up.

MARK GUERRERO: White people are trying to take over Africa, which is where literally⁶ Black people come from, you know. You don't treat Black people right, but you're trying to take over their land.

FILES: While today's lesson is about a separatist thinker, Janke says the course is much more expansive.

JANKE: We talk about arts. We talk about cultural trends. We talk about the diaspora outside of the United States as well, which might not be included in some of the other classes that I've taught before.

FILES: AP classes like this one allow students to earn college credit while still in high school. The College Board, which creates AP courses, has long offered U.S. history and European history. This course on African American Studies has been in the works for a decade. University of Wisconsin education professor Erika Bullock says it's long overdue⁷.

ERIKA BULLOCK: It is possible as a Black student to go through an entire K-12 experience and not read a book by a Black author or not experience a Black teacher or not understand how Black people around the world have contributed to things like mathematics and science.

FILES: Officials elsewhere have been highly critical of the course. The Florida Department of Education banned it, saying it has a political agenda. The College Board said in a statement that AP students are never required to agree with a certain opinion or ideology⁸. Back in Milwaukee, Janke wraps up the day's lesson.

JANKE: We're going to talk more as we go along here that the overwhelming part of the civil rights movement disagreed with what Marcus Garvey was saying - people like Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois that we've talked about before.

FILES: Student Devin Hayden says what she's learned here is much deeper than traditional social studies classes.

DEVIN HAYDEN: I think taking this class really helped me understand that there was a broader history besides slavery and civil rights movement, that we can all, you know, stand to know about. And being able to learn about all of that really just kind of made my education a lot more wholesome⁹.

FILES: So far, there hasn't been any backlash to the course in Wisconsin. Student Kalia Humphrey (ph) says it's frustrating¹⁰ that it's controversial elsewhere.

KALIA HUMPHREY: I think that by hiding history and, like, not letting it be taught, we just end up repeating the cycle.

FILES: A cycle, she says, of not knowing the country's full history. The College Board will release the official framework for the AP African American Studies course on February 1, the first day of Black History Month. For NPR News, I'm Emily Files in Milwaukee.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

4 integrationist   

n.主张消除种族隔离的人

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5 colonization   

殖民地的开拓，殖民，殖民地化； 移殖

参考例句：

• Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty. 开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
• These countries took part in the colonization of Africa. 这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。

6 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

7 overdue   

adj.过期的，到期未付的；早该有的，迟到的

参考例句：

• The plane is overdue and has been delayed by the bad weather.飞机晚点了，被坏天气耽搁了。
• The landlady is angry because the rent is overdue.女房东生气了，因为房租过期未付。

8 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

9 wholesome   

adj.适合；卫生的；有益健康的；显示身心健康的

参考例句：

• In actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.实际上我喜欢做的事大都是有助于增进身体健康的。
• It is not wholesome to eat without washing your hands.不洗手吃饭是不卫生的。

10 frustrating   

adj.产生挫折的，使人沮丧的，令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间，真令人懊恼。
• It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》