This past weekend, the Arkansas Department of Education alerted school districts across the state offering Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies that it would no longer recognize the course, and that students who complete it would not receive high school credit for doing so.
The course is a pilot program, offered to a number of districts across the country at the moment with hopes of expanding it in the next couple of years. Such pilot programs are not uncommon, as they allow College Board, the company that manages AP classes, to fine-tune classes before they're rolled out nationally. More than 200 colleges and universities have committed to recognizing the high school course for college credit.
