College Board's revised AP African American studies course draws new criticism

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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    50% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Instead, Black Lives Matter is listed alongside Black conservatism as a sample course project, labeled Illustrative Only."
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-4% Liberal
"David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights organization that advocates for Black LGBT people, asked the College Board to consider pulling all AP classes from the State of Florida if Governor DeSantis continues to try to inject his political agenda into our classrooms."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Others are saying that changes to the curriculum were made to appease Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after his administration rejected the original iteration of the course last month."
Negative
-18% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Instead, Black Lives Matter is listed alongside Black conservatism as a sample course project, labeled "Illustrative Only."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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