Earlier this year, about five dozen educators attended a four-day seminar at Howard University to discuss course concepts and best teaching practices.
During the summit, Howard officials maintained their desire to attract Black and Latinx high school teachers to an Advanced Placement Summer Institute that would help increase diversity among A.P. teachers.
Now, 60 schools around the country have agreed to participate in a pilot program for A.P. African American Studies. With a large Black and Hispanic student body, Brooklyn Prep officials and students alike have expressed excitement. “It’s a game changer, and I feel like us being mostly Hispanic, mostly African American students, mostly Caribbean students, we don’t get to learn much about our cultures and how we were thriving. We learn more about how we were confined like in slavery and how we were treated.”
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