Posted on 09/19/2014 9:04:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
We, the authors below, served on the Advanced Placement United States History Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee from 2008 through 2012. In that capacity, guided by continued dialogue with and input from the teachers who work each day with our nation’s most talented and dedicated students, we authored the Curriculum Framework that was published in October 2012 and that is at the heart of the College Board’s current Course and Exam Description for AP U.S. History.
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AP courses are elective courses, and the AP exams are elective exams. What “government mandated tests” are you referring to?
People say, "Well, then they'll be in the hands of leftwing profs." Maybe. At my school, you'd have about a 25-30% chance of getting a conservative prof in the REQUIRED class for freshmen. In many schools, the lecturers who teach entry-level US History or Western Civ are not as far left as the professoriate as a whole, partly because many of these lecturers could not get tenure track jobs because of either their schools they graduated from (i.e., not Harvard or Yale) or because their dissertation topics are about business or military history or biography.
What I'm saying is that a very real option to AP classes is to just take the plain old course in college. At least there a student can contest the prof's views (if he isn't a total tyrant).
...after high level guidance from the AP History Redesign Commission...
We have the names of the folks around the table. I’d like the names of the ones who provided high level guidance.
Liberals asking other liberals what they would like to be deemed required learning(indoctrinating)/reading in school.
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