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Scholars blast decision to cut 8,000 years from AP World History
Campus Reform ^ | June 28, 2018 | Mason McKie

Posted on 06/29/2018 6:44:16 AM PDT by C19fan

Students and scholars are up in arms over a decision to cut thousands of years from the Advanced Placement World History curriculum, with some historians fretting it will make the course too "Western-centric."

“The College Board wants to remove over 8,000 of those years, and start the course in 1450 CE,” declares a petition seeking to prevent the change, which had already exceeded 11,000 signatures by press time.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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To: C19fan

AP is a scam. A HUGE scam.

It needs to be pulled up from the root and tossed out.


41 posted on 06/29/2018 8:25:48 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: C19fan

Heh, looks like they are still dumbing down the curriculum.


42 posted on 06/29/2018 8:34:18 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Tuketu

If they don’t like “B.C.” and “A.D.” tell them the letters stand for “backwards counting” and “advancing dates.”


43 posted on 06/29/2018 8:55:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: reg45

Kudos to the Byzantine Empire for centuries of holding back the Muzzies.


44 posted on 06/29/2018 9:28:56 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

...until it was besieged and sacked by Crusaders form Western Europe.


45 posted on 06/29/2018 9:31:07 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: marktwain
1945-1968

Good times! Except I'd cap it at '64.

It started to unravel big time in '65.

46 posted on 06/29/2018 9:37:01 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

True, true.

We can disagree about a couple of years one way or the other.

In 1968, you could still buy anti-tank rifles or anti-aircraft cannon through the mail, with ammunition. No license necessary.


47 posted on 06/29/2018 9:51:35 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: jjotto

Yup, that was awful.

It rolled back the impressive recovery which the empire had made in the 12th century under the Comnenus emperors, after the disaster at Manzikert in 1071.

Despite the 1204 sack of Constantinople, though, the empire made a strong comeback and held onto a big chunk of western Anatolia through most of the 13th century. Then came the Ottoman Turks.

BTW John Julius Norwich died this month. He was a great Byzantine historian, and a viscount to boot. (The title to which I aspire.)


48 posted on 06/29/2018 9:55:39 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: marktwain

Interesting about the guns.

I think it was 1967 that California outlawed open carry, in response to the Black Panthers parading around the state capital packing.


49 posted on 06/29/2018 9:58:08 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: C19fan
start the course in 1450 CE

"CE is "AD" for pagans.

50 posted on 06/29/2018 10:42:37 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: MUDDOG

I think it was 1967 that California outlawed open carry, in response to the Black Panthers parading around the state capital packing.


A great example of a successful Alynski tactic.


51 posted on 06/29/2018 11:55:47 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>According to Liberals the entirety of history began with the election of FDR.<<

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, in their defense, that WAS the greatest victory by an intelligence agency in human history-—the capture of the U.S. Government by the KGB.

But somehow I don’t think the curriculum will even cover that.


52 posted on 06/29/2018 2:36:46 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (Read "American Betrayal" by Diana West)
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To: C19fan

Evil idiots. They’re totally blatant about dummying down education. We’re already being doomed, ultimately, by the poor quality of education over the last 2-3 decades. They just want to ramp it up, so even those who know enough to want a good education, will find it very difficult to get one.


53 posted on 06/29/2018 2:50:02 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: C19fan

There’s no way a student can effectively understand the modern world by starting at 1450 AD.

College Board just wants make room for “multicultural” studies.


54 posted on 06/29/2018 7:19:41 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: C19fan; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks C19fan. Also the weekly digest list ping.

55 posted on 06/30/2018 7:52:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Sasparilla

What is needed is to exterminate the revisionists.

They are excess protoplasm to the requirements of the world


56 posted on 06/30/2018 8:30:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: C19fan

Of course, this insane move totally rejects the history of Judaism. What a coincidence!


57 posted on 06/30/2018 8:48:18 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: C19fan

“some historians” need to be fired.


58 posted on 06/30/2018 10:19:01 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: LS; DesertRhino; bkopto; reg45; yefragetuwrabrumuy; G Larry; D Rider; SunkenCiv; blam; All

Even if you only include cultures with some type of writing you omit the Indus Valley cultures, Sumerians, and starting 4,000 years ago the Chinese, Japanese, Egyptians, Mesopotamian cultures, the Greeks, Romans, Christianity, Muslim rise (the fact that Spain was occupied for about 800 years); not to mention Incan and Mayan cultures and their predecessors. Does President Trump have some influence on the deciding body to downgrade the Chinese?


59 posted on 06/30/2018 4:11:46 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: C19fan

They cut out Jesus and the Roman empire


60 posted on 06/30/2018 6:14:59 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for eir victory.)
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