Posted on 08/19/2014 5:53:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As students prepare to return to school in the next few weeks, there's no better time for a conservative freakout over education. The issue of the moment is a new outline, or “framework,” issued by the College Board for advanced placement classes in US history.
The framework is here. According to a resolution passed at the recent summer meeting of the Republican National Committee meeting in Chicago, it “reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects.” The RNC calls the framework, which is to be implemented for some 500,000 AP history students this fall, “biased and inaccurate.”
The RNC calls for Congress to de-fund the College Board, an independent body, until the course material can be “rewritten…to accurately reflect U.S. history without a political bias.” …
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I’ll bet the idiot Hiltzik gets drunker than hell every Cinco de Mayo. What a moron.
If these people weren’t so stupid, and they are very stupid, they would be upset too.
A nation who allows itself to loses its history has lost its future.
A nation who allows itself to lose its history has lost its future.
Maybe a time-traveling horse would help.
Standing up for "principle"?
The enduring principles and ideas essential to liberty for individuals in a society, once understood and taught to the youth of America, are the very ideas which caused hundreds of millions of oppressed individuals to flee their own countries and come to America!
Just what "principle" can these reinterpreters of America's founding ideas "stand up" for?
the intent isn’t to teach history but to sow discord and get people to hate the country, just like obama and all the dictators and commies around the world do.
Americans are ‘throwing a conniption’ over the teaching of ANTI-US history.
Well, since one of the principles of communist society is that “the present dominates the past”, that is exactly what happens in this respect.
Howard Zinn strikes again.
I read much of the AP History material proposed by the College Board in a different thread on FreeRepublic. It was truly depressing. The depth to which the revisers will go to push their agenda is astounding.
I read 1984 and Brave New World when they were still science fiction. Alas, Babylon.
Olplayer
History, anyone’s history, is indeed a political argument. The past explains the present, and therefore serves to justify peoples arguments about the present. There is no way to be either professional or apolitical in teaching or writing about history. Even someone consciously and conscientiously trying to be as objective as humanly possible, will fail.
That, among other things, is one of the lessons of history.
So anything like an academic history standard or a history curriculum is a political document.
Pure b.s. propaganda.
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 granting the War Department broad powers to create military exclusion areas. Although the order did not identify any particular group, in practice it was used almost exclusively to intern Americans of Japanese descent. By 1943, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans had been forced from their homes and moved to camps in remote inland areas of the United States.
It was Democrat FDR who signed the order.
The decision to drop the bomb ended the war and saved lives. Simple as that. Did not cause Americans to question their values. Pure propaganda b.s.
No, being objective when it comes to history is not “doomed to fail”. Even the politicizers will get swallowed up by their own machinations.
I thoroughly expect within the next 20 years, that George Washington (the slave owner) will be struck from the history books, his picture taken off the dollar, and Washington DC renamed.
It is indeed doomed to fail.
I have been a student of history for 50 years. It is my daily reading. One can try to be objective, but we humans are too weak and ignorant to succeed. From experience, there is always a valid point of view from which one can criticize any work of history, on many grounds. Errors of commission are a risk, errors of bias, unacknowledged assumptions are a greater risk, but greater than any are errors of omission.
All histories are biased. The real question is whether they are useful, and for what.
No, not all histories are biased. Saying that means that one has thrown away one’s objectivity rather than maintained it.
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