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• SOURCE: National Review
  5-1-18
  

  Conservative’s complaint? Liberals have taken over the writing of textbooks

  by Stanley Kurtz

  "The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, social studies, and related subjects.” – National Review’s Stanley Kurz

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• 7-14-16
  

  Teacher who damned AP test in US history says the European AP test is ok

  by Frederick M. Hess

  Larry Krieger has risen to the College Board’s defense.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-8-16
  

  Most scholars seem happy with the new AP history test that rolls out next month

  The College Board says it heard the critics out and made needed changes.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2-18-16
  

  Why Oklahoma Lawmakers Voted to Ban AP U.S. History

  Representative Dan Fisher, who introduced the bill, lamented during Monday's hearing that the new AP U.S. History framework emphasizes "what is bad about America" and doesn't teach "American exceptionalism."

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  11-4-15
  

  Conservative School Board Members Who Pushed For ‘Patriotic’ History Get Booted

  In Colorado’s second-largest school district, residents overwhelmingly voted to recall three conservative school board members who floated a controversial proposal that the Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum be changed to “promote patriotism.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-28-15
  

  Colorado school board that raised patriotic objections to the AP history test faces recall

  Last fall thousands of students staged a walkout to protest the proposed change.

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• SOURCE: Indian Country
  9-8-15
  

  Native Americans complain about the revised AP framework for US history

  They say it “perpetuates lies about Native Americans."

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  8-21-15
  

  Fight Over Politics in AP U.S. History Guide Misses the Point, Historians Say

  by Liana Heitin

  The point?   Both the 2014 and 2015 documents are significantly better than what came before them.

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  8-22-15 (accessed)
  

  How bad are the textbooks used in Texas now?

  Publishers didn't actually cave.  Students will still be learning about Jim Crow. 

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• 8-14-15
  

  Did the Founding Fathers Believe In American Exceptionalism?

  by Sheldon Stern

  Like John Adams, they were for the most part confident that the new United States was on the cusp of a brilliant future. But they did not believe that Americans, as a people, were exempt from the flaws and faults of other nations and peoples.

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• 8-14-15
  

  Left and Right May Not Be Happy with the New AP Standards. Here’s Why You Should Be.

  by Jeremy Stern

  The 2015 revision offers much for those who approach the past without a present agenda.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7-31-15
  

  President of the OAH says the revised AP standards are ok

  AHA executive director James Grossman agrees.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  8-1-15
  

  Historians at loggerheads over the AP standards

  On the CBS Evening News Jeremy Stern went up against Williamjames Hull Hoffer.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  7-31-15
  

  All the ways the new AP US history standards gloss over the country’s racist past

  by Jake Flanagin

  The revised AP curriculum significantly tones down language (and even mentions) of racial tension throughout US history.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-29-15
  

  Revised AP U.S. History Standards Will Emphasize American Exceptionalism

  The revision is being released after significant pushback from conservatives who claimed the redesigned course framework, released last year, painted American history in too negative a light.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-29-15
  

  In a county that tried to amend U.S. history course, a lesson in politics

  Voters in Jefferson County, Colo., are petitioning to recall three conservative members of the local school board who caused a national stir last fall after criticizing the Advanced Placement U.S. History course for being insufficiently patriotic.

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• SOURCE: Media Matters
  6-12-15
  

  Liberal website complains that Fox News Cherry-Picks From AP History Guidelines

  Media Matters says Fox is hyping fears that "U.S. History May Be History"

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6-11-15
  

  Is AP U.S. History Biased? Take This Quiz and See!

  by John A. Tures

  Here's a test to see how well you know the AP U.S. History curriculum.

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• SOURCE: The College Fix
  6-11-15
  

  History major at Cal State San Marcos complains her profs are biased against conservatives

  "Welcome to my world. I’m a history major drowning in a sea of subjectivity."

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• SOURCE: National Association of Scholars (NAS)
  6-2-15
  

  Conservative scholarly group denounces new AP history framework

  55 scholars have signed the open letter to the College Board protesting the new standards.