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Advanced Placement courses could clash with laws that target critical race theory

  • Written by: Suneal Kolluri, Assistant Professor of Education, University of California, Riverside
imageLawmakers have passed many laws that seek to control how teachers educate students about racism in the U.S.Hill Street Studios / Getty Images

Scientific theories to justify racism. Laws and Supreme Court decisions that denied Black people equal rights. The imperialist view that Anglo-Saxons were called upon by God to civilize the...

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