New York City public schools will utilize a new Black Studies curriculum this fall, spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
The coursework was created by Columbia University Teachers College’s Black Education Research Center. The curriculum was funded by the New York City Council, known as the Education Equity Action Plan (EEAP).
The curriculum, which was already implemented in a portion of the city’s schools, will be available to all schools this month as students return to class.
“This is not a curriculum about a particular racial group, necessarily, but about the history of inequality and stratification hierarchy in the United States,” Sonya Douglass, a professor of Education Leadership at Columbia University’s Teachers College, told ABC News.
“When young people, as well as teachers, who may have not even had access to this content in their own training and education are grounded in that history and…
