SCHOLARS PROTEST COLLEGE BOARD’S LEFTIST SPIN ON AMERICAN HISTORY
by Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine:
“Last summer I wrote about the the College Board’s new AP U.S. History (APUSH) framework and explained how it mandates a left-wing narrative for the teaching of American history to our top high school students. The teaching of American history is ground zero in the left’s battle to indoctrinate students. The new AP U.S. History framework is the left’s ultimate weapon in this battle.
Now 55 leading American history scholars have condemned the College Board’s framework in a remarkable letter. Peter Berkowitz provides an outstanding analysis.
Stanley Kurtz takes a look at the scholars who signed the statement. They include a number of our friends and allies including (but not limited to) Charles Kesler, Jean Yarbrough, Paul Rahe, Stephan Thernstrom, Ron Radosh, and John Fonte.
It’s an ideologically diverse group, though. Lynne Cheney signed; so did Robert Merry a strong critic of George W. Bush’s foreign policy.
As Kurtz says, “the ordinary Americans who’ve rebelled against what our scholars aptly call an ‘arid, fragmentary, and misleading’ treatment of American history now have backing from a wide array of professions.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/130849.php
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