A Highlands Ranch teacher is getting ready to crack open a textbook and teach Advanced Placement African American Studies for the first time. This is also a first for the Douglas County School ...

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In 1777, Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, and the state generally prides itself on this history. But as I have learned from preparing teachers there to teach Black history, that ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In honor of Black History Month, News4JAX is spotlighting an African American male educator who spent 40 years teaching for Duval County Public Schools. Over his four-decade ...

Miami Norland Senior High School teacher Renee O’Connor in her classroom on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Back in February of 2022, Renee O’Connor was a finalist to be Miami-Dade County Public School’s ...

TULSA, Okla. — The schoolchildren arrived at the community center's cafeteria on a Saturday morning, their parents in tow. Some adults came without children, because they, too, wanted to learn the ...

Nearly three decades ago, Florida passed a landmark measure requiring that Black history be taught in its public schools. “Knowledge is the antidote to the poison of prejudice,” Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Schools have renamed a school in honor of the district's first African-American teacher. The Academy of Teaching, Learning, & Social Justice at Innovation ...

Teaching Black history continues to be a polarizing issue in the U.S. A recent proposal to strike terms like “white supremacy” and “systematic racism” from Virginia’s elective courses on African ...

Gwen Partridge, or Mrs. Gwen to her pre-K students, walked around her homemade Black History Museum at the YMCA Immanuel Early Learning Center in Omaha, Neb., on an icy Thursday. She and her ...

Nacala McDaniels, a 2023 graduate who took AP African American Studies, speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — Nacala ...