Education Briefing: The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges

Plus: The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

View in browser February 8, 2023 Welcome to the Education Briefing! From preschool to grad school, we'll round up the latest U.S. education news and deliver it to your inbox every week. An Rong Xu for The New York Times   The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges The chances of obtaining a coveted clerkship, a new study found, increase sharply with undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. Open now The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional. Open now Inside the College Board's Revised African American Studies Curriculum A guide to some changes in the curriculum, and how the new course differs from standard treatments of Black history in American high schools. Open now At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Open now See more stories Receive alerts about the latest education news as it happens with the New York Times app. Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for Education Briefing from The New York Times. To stop receiving Education Briefing, unsubscribe. To opt out of other promotional emails from The Times, manage your email preferences. Subscribe to The TimesGet The New York Times app Connect with us on: Change Your EmailPrivacy PolicyContact UsCalifornia Notices The New York Times Company. 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018