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Commentary By Jason L. Riley

Black Students Need Better Schools, Not Lower Standards

Education Pre K-12

The fixation on racial parity at any cost will doom yet another generation to educational failure.

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.

The College Board’s primary concern is that blacks are underrepresented among high-school students who receive college credit for AP courses. This achievement gap has drawn scrutiny from progressives who automatically attribute racial imbalances to racial discrimination. The College Board could address the problem by providing more tutoring services for students who are struggling. Instead, it has created a black-studies course that no one expects to match the academic rigor of other AP offerings.

Continue reading the entire piece here at The Wall Street Journal

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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.

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