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Skip to contentSkip to site index Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation SEARCH U.S. SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Thursday, August 3, 2023 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK U.S.|The College Board Says A.P. Psychology Is ‘Effectively Banned’ in Florida https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-courses.html * Give this article * * Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT THE COLLEGE BOARD SAYS A.P. PSYCHOLOGY IS ‘EFFECTIVELY BANNED’ IN FLORIDA The nonprofit said it would not remove a section on gender and sexual orientation, as Florida had requested, and advised districts not to offer the course. * Give this article * * * Read in app The Florida Department of Education, pictured, accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students” and said it had not banned the course. Credit...Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press By Sarah Mervosh Aug. 3, 2023Updated 9:05 p.m. ET Sign Up for the Education Briefing From preschool to grad school, get the latest U.S. education news. Get it sent to your inbox. The College Board announced on Thursday that Florida school districts should no longer offer Advanced Placement Psychology, one of the most popular A.P. courses, the latest skirmish in its battle with the state’s Department of Education over how to teach race, gender and sexual orientation. The College Board, the nonprofit that oversees advanced placement courses and the SAT, revoked its support for A.P. Psychology in Florida, saying it would not abide by the state’s demand to remove a longstanding section on gender and sexual orientation. “The Florida Department of Education has effectively banned A.P. Psychology in the state,” the College Board said in a statement. The Department of Education fired back, accusing the College Board of “playing games with Florida students” one week before school starts. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT “The Department didn’t ‘ban’ the course,” the department said in a statement. “The course remains listed in Florida’s Course Code Directory for the 2023-24 school year. We encourage the College Board to stop playing games with Florida students and continue to offer the course and allow teachers to operate accordingly.” MORE ON U.S. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION * Reading Crisis: Many states are taking steps to improve reading instruction for struggling students. But New York, once a national leader in education reform, lags behind. * Florida’s Black History Standards: After an overhaul to Florida’s African American history standards, Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a barrage of criticism from politicians, educators and historians, who called the state’s guidelines a sanitized version of history. * School Voucher Experiment: Arizona is the first state to make every student eligible for private school subsidies — on average worth about $7,200 per student annually. So far, it has often benefited wealthier families. * Poor Performance: Despite billions of federal dollars spent to help make up for pandemic-related learning loss, progress in reading and math stalled over the past school year for elementary and middle-school students, according to a new study. Under an expanded Florida rule, instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation is now restricted in most cases through the 12th grade. The Florida Department of Education had asked the College Board and other providers of advanced, college-level courses to search their offerings for potential violations. But the College Board said that it would not modify its content, and that any course that did not address gender and sexual orientation should not be labeled “advanced placement.” “To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either Florida law or college requirements,” the College Board said. The College Board, a powerful nonprofit, has been waging war with the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, since earlier this year when his administration rejected the College Board’s new African American studies course. The curriculum included topics such as “queer studies,” reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement, and the administration objected, citing a state law limiting how racism and other aspects of history are taught in public schools. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The battle exposed the College Board’s negotiations with the DeSantis administration, and its changes to the curriculum. But the fight over A.P. Psychology moves the battlefield from a new course that was taking feedback and being piloted, to long-established academic territory. A.P. Psychology has been around for three decades, and it has included a section on gender and sexual orientation as part of the framework since the course’s inception, the College Board said. The section comes as part of a unit on developmental psychology, spanning childhood and adolescence to older adulthood, with themes on “moral development” as well as on gender and sexual orientation. “Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development,” the College Board’s framework for that segment says. The American Psychological Association has supported the inclusion of gender identity and sexual orientation as a necessary part of studying human development. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT “An advanced placement course that ignores the decades of science studying sexual orientation and gender identity would deprive students of knowledge they will need to succeed in their studies, in high school and beyond,” the group’s chief executive, Arthur C. Evans Jr., said in a statement Thursday. In refusing to modify its course, the College Board said in June that it had “learned from our mistakes” in the rollout of the A.P. African American Studies course and asserted that “we must be clear from the outset where we stand.” The latest developments leave school districts scrambling just days before the school year is scheduled to start next week for some districts. More than 28,000 students in Florida took the A.P. Psychology course last year, and the class can result in college credit for some students who score high enough on an end-of-course exam. Sarah Mervosh is a national reporter covering education. She previously covered the coronavirus pandemic and breaking news. More about Sarah Mervosh A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 4, 2023, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Florida ‘Effectively Banned’ A.P. Psychology, College Board Says. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe * Give this article * * * Read in app Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT SITE INDEX SITE INFORMATION NAVIGATION * © 2023 The New York Times Company * NYTCo * Contact Us * Accessibility * Work with us * Advertise * T Brand Studio * Your Ad Choices * Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Terms of Sale * Site Map * Canada * International * Help * Subscriptions Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Times. See subscription options We've updated our termsWe encourage you to review our updated Terms of Sale, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. By continuing, you agree to the updated Terms listed here.Continue