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Historic fail? Greatest Americans missing from proposed curriculum
Fox News ^ | August 7,2014 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 08/07/2014 2:18:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk

New history curriculum standards proposed for top high school students leave out such American icons as Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr., paint colonists as bigots and gloss over the Greatest Generation's fight to save the world from Nazi Germany, according to conservative education activists who want the framework delayed — and perhaps scrapped altogether.

“And you’re not going to find Thomas Jefferson and the House of Burgesses and the cradle of democracy either,” said Larry Krieger, who retired in 2005 after more than three decades in the classroom. “And finally, you’re not going to find Benjamin Franklin and the birth of American entrepreneurialism.”

Instead, students exposed to the curriculum — roughly 500,000 annually nationwide, many of whom will take the class as sophomores and juniors — will find a narrative laden with tyranny and subjugation.

“What you’re going to find is our nation’s founders portrayed as bigots who developed a belief in white superiority that was, in turn, derived from a strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority,” Krieger told FoxNews.com.

Krieger, who specialized in the Advanced Placement U.S. history course during his years as a teacher, most recently in New Jersey, participated in a conference call Monday with other activists seeking to delay implementation of the new curriculum for at least one year.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: academicbias; americaindecline; antiamericanism; commoncore; downthememoryhole; historyeducation; revisionisthistory

1 posted on 08/07/2014 2:18:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Men suck, Christians suck, British people suck, White people suck, heterosexuals suck. Liberal orthodoxy in ten seconds.


2 posted on 08/07/2014 2:23:09 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Hojczyk

Hmmmm...wondering if related to common core?


3 posted on 08/07/2014 2:25:24 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: goodnesswins

Legacy of Howard Zinn.


4 posted on 08/07/2014 2:27:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: goodnesswins

One of the Texas politicians is investigating that...


5 posted on 08/07/2014 2:27:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Hojczyk

Really crummy reporting Fox. This is not balanced at all.

99% of the article is about folks who oppose the curriculum. What about folks who like the curriculum? Surely there are some.

And the biggest error: you didn’t tell us anything about who instituted the changes and the reasons therefore.


6 posted on 08/07/2014 2:29:38 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: Army Air Corps

How does a history course cover WWII without mentioning Hitler or the Holocaust?

“Japan struck out at American imperialism in the Pacific islands and were horribly killed by atomic bombings of unarmed civilians. The end.”


7 posted on 08/07/2014 2:29:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Hojczyk

Who wrote it? Bill Ayers?......................


8 posted on 08/07/2014 2:29:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: upchuck

I couldn’t even find the name or sponsor of this 98 page syllabus.


9 posted on 08/07/2014 2:30:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: Red Badger

Pass it and the students can find out what’s in it once school begins.


10 posted on 08/07/2014 2:31:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: a fool in paradise

They’ll just say that the Soviet Union alone defeated Hitler, despite the Western Allies dragging their heals on establishing a second front.


11 posted on 08/07/2014 2:33:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: goodnesswins

The new head of the College Board was behind the common core as well.


12 posted on 08/07/2014 2:34:13 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: a fool in paradise

History professors were invited to a large conclave at the WH in 2009.

Now, we have this.

“We’re going to have to change our history.” MO


13 posted on 08/07/2014 2:36:46 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Hojczyk

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in retaliation for the unprovoked attack on a Japanese submarine by the USS Ward at 6:37 AM December 7, 1941 without a formal declaration of war.


14 posted on 08/07/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: upchuck

I guess this is it

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-exam-descriptions/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf


15 posted on 08/07/2014 3:02:42 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Hojczyk

They need to show Dinesh D’Souza’s movie every day.
When the students can recite it from memory, they pass.


16 posted on 08/07/2014 3:20:12 PM PDT by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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To: Hojczyk

Are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Caesar Chavez represented?


17 posted on 08/07/2014 4:32:02 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: a fool in paradise

There is a move in educational circles to get rid of textbooks completely. That way the student MUST rely on the teacher for ALL information...................


18 posted on 08/08/2014 6:20:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: aomagrat
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in retaliation for the unprovoked attack on a Japanese submarine by the USS Ward at 6:37 AM December 7, 1941 without a formal declaration of war.

No, no, no! That's not the PROGRESSIVE view.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in retaliation for the IMPERIALISTIC MACHINATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN EAST ASIA. IT WAS OUR FAULT.

We return you now to your normal reality timeline.................

19 posted on 08/08/2014 6:24:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Hojczyk

I thought the greatest American in history was Rigoberta Menchu?


20 posted on 08/08/2014 5:04:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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