Black students need better schools, not lower standards

The good news is that the College Board has revised the curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African-American studies. Topics such as “black queer studies” and “intersectionality and activism” have been downgraded or expunged. The bad news is that offering the course to begin with remains an exercise in racial pandering.

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