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Conservative War on Education

Ben Carson had the same view on AP History because it focused too much on slavery, not allowing women to vote across the board until 1920, and internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII. Can't let impressionable minds learn those things in school.
 
North Carolina newspapers have largely missed the connection between a Koch-funded education non-profit organization contracted to help shape new statewide history curriculum materials, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the conservative model legislation mill that wrote the bill mandating the new course work.

In 2011, the North Carolina legislature passed a bill known as the "Founding Principles Act," which would require high school students to pass a course on "Founding Philosophy and the Founding Principles of government for a free people." The bill was generated as a piece of model legislation by ALEC, a conservative group that brings corporations and politicians together to vote on and construct bills to be used in multiple states. According to the Huffington Post, North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction, which has been tasked with drawing up the curriculum required by the Founding Principles Act, proposed on December 3 to "'highly recommend' social studies material from the Bill of Rights Institute," an organization which "receives funding from the billionaire Koch brothers."
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/08/north-carolina-newspapers-mostly-silent-as-alec/201793
 
Is this like the War on Women where if you don't pay for their pills it means you're the Taliban?

It is gratifying to learn that conservatives, of which I am not one, don't want people to be able to read and write. The things you learn on the World Wide Web.
 
AP US History has taken a sharp left turn in the past couple of years.

Lets not forget that the left wing has been ostensibly in charge of education in America for the past two centuries and look how far they've gotten us!
 
RaleighDevil said:
Is this like the War on Women where if you don't pay for their pills it means you're the Taliban?

It is gratifying to learn that conservatives, of which I am not one, don't want people to be able to read and write. The things you learn on the World Wide Web.
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interesting, i'd love to read some info about the leftist turn of our AP classes
 
They re-worked the curriculum to put our Nation's history is largely negative light, glossing over the positives and focusing more on the negative aspects of America's founding.

There's plenty of articles w/ a simple google search "AP US History changes"
 
Go said:
They re-worked the curriculum to put our Nation's history is largely negative light, glossing over the positives and focusing more on the negative aspects of America's founding.

There's plenty of articles w/ a simple google search "AP US History changes"
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Is that the same thing is moving toward a more honest study of American History? Is anyone making anything up?
 
Doesn't that article say no content has changed and that those protesting the new outline are doing so because it doesn't promote enough patriotism?

That's not the role of a history class at all.
 
I read that article three times and still have no idea how it supports any premise that substantively the curriculum has changed to the left. In fact it seems to explicitly state the opposite
 
My high school was still using books printed during the Cold War. When they showed the "two types of global economies" in a chart, there was the free market economy on one side with a smiling Uncle Sam holding a moneybag, and on the other side, the command economy, a yellow star with red eyes and fangs. Literally.

The textbook inculcation of American children has been propagandist for over a century. It has taken a "leftist turn" to include Japanese internment, to change the concept that maybe Christopher Columbus wasn't a perfect heroic symbol, that maybe even our founding fathers owned slaves.

The honest reckoning with American history is important.

Don't worry, kids are still made to recite the pledge of allegiance.
 
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