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Middletown officials review plan to replace AP U.S. History with dual-enrollment course
Summary
Middletown School District staff proposed replacing AP U.S. History with a university-run dual-enrollment American history course if local teacher approvals arrive; board members pressed for details about transferability, staffing and timing.
Elizabeth Mancini, a high school social studies teacher, told the Middletown School District Curriculum Committee on March 6 that the district is proposing a shift from AP U.S. History to a dual-enrollment (ECE) American history course taught in partnership with Connecticut universities.
Mancini said the proposed course would cover U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present and “matches what we are currently offering at the high school,” allowing a seamless transition from middle school U.S. history to the high school sequence. She described the move as teacher-initiated work that began when Ryan Mallory, the district’s former AP U.S. History teacher, pursued a second master’s to qualify as a dual-enrollment instructor before his death…
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