The Progressive deconstruction of American History teaching at the collegiate level is nearly complete... The growing dispute over the College Board’s new Framework for AP U.S. History (APUSH) turns around these clashing views of the American story. The creators and defenders of the new APUSH Framework are adherents of a radically revisionist approach to American history. That is why the Framers and the principles of our Constitutional system receive short shrift in the new AP guidelines, and why the conflict between settlers and Indians has taken center stage instead. The College Board claims that teachers are perfectly free to illustrate the new Framework’s themes by citing great figures of American history. The problem with this is that the Framework’s core concepts have been thoroughly shaped by the revisionist perspective. There is plenty of room for the Founders as exemplars of prejudice or blinkered ambition, yet far less opportunity to present them as architects of a principled republicanism. Which is why they push college so much, even to the point where students take on crushing student loan debt they may never pay off. Its to fully indoctrinate these upcoming generations of youth to the Progressive cause. And, unfortunately its working.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:41:13 +0000
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