We can put the issue of the AP US History curriculum in proper perspective by asking and answering this question: Is the College Board acting as a rogue elephant in rewriting American history to reflect a neo-Marxian worldview of America’s accomplishments and sins --or is it simply codifying and institutionalizing the conventional wisdom in the academic community?Read more here.
If you believe the former, then you can look upon these battles as local eruptions and passing irritants. But if you understand that the College Board’s redesign of American history instruction is actually representative of the intellectual worldview of America’s higher education establishment, then you understand that this is a battle for America’s soul.
Also, read Stanley Kurtz's analysis here.
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