Op-Ed: The ‘Stealthy’ Plan to Infuse HS American History with ‘Sharply Left-Leaning Curriculum’ — and Its Common Core Connection

Op-Ed: The ‘Stealthy’ Plan to Infuse HS American History with ‘Sharply Left-Leaning Curriculum’ — and Its Common Core Connection | TheBlaze.com:

The way American history is taught in high schools across the United States may soon undergo a radical shift toward a “centrally-controlled and sharply left-leaning curriculum,” one conservative commentator said — and there’s a curious connection to Common Core underneath it all.

In his op-ed for National Review Online, “New War Over High School U.S. History,” Stanley Kurtz noted that the College Board — which issues the SAT college entrance and Advanced Placement exams — is implementing a new framework for the AP U.S. History Exam.

College Board President and C.E.O. David Coleman attends The New York Times Next New World Conference on June 12, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Image source: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for New York Times)

In the end this framework will jettison high school American history’s “traditional emphasis on America’s founders and the principles of constitutional government” in favor of “a left-leaning emphasis on race, gender, class, ethnicity…” he wrote.

Kurtz also insisted that public debate about the issue has been “largely suppressed by the stealthy way in which the College Board has rolled out the new test.”