How the College Board Politicized U.S. History

National Review ^ | August 25, 2014 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386202/how-college-board-politic | Stanley Kurtz

[Ray76]

he College Board, the private company that produces the SAT test and the various Advanced Placement (AP) exams, has kicked off a national controversy by issuing a new and unprecedentedly detailed “Framework” for its AP U.S. History exam. This Framework will effectively force American high schools to teach U.S. history from a leftist perspective. The College Board disclaims political intent, insisting that the new Framework provides a “balanced” guide that merely helps to streamline the AP U.S. History course while enhancing teacher flexibility. Not only the Framework itself, but the history of its development suggests that a balanced presentation of the American story was not the College Board’s goal. The origins of the new AP U.S. History framework are closely tied to a movement of left-leaning historians that aims to “internationalize” the teaching of American history. The goal is to “end American history as we have known it” by substituting a more “transnational” narrative for the traditional account.

[Don Corleone]

Anytime some organization professes that something is “BALANCED” you know instinctively that it isn’t.

[Sasparilla]

Right out of George Orwell on Big Brother control in 1984.

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

[Ray76]

David Coleman is the president of the College Board
https://www.collegeboard.org/about/leadership/david-coleman

Coleman, 42, was an architect of the Common Core State Standards which to date have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia. He is a Founding Partner of Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit organization devoted to the successful implementation of the Standards, where he leads the organization’s work with teachers and policymakers to achieve the promise of the Common Core to improve education.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120524064147/http://press.collegeboard.org/releases/2012/college-board-names-david-coleman-new-president

Now, Coleman is in charge of the most important test score a student can receive. As president of the College Board, a national education company, he is redesigning the SAT, the standardized test taken by many high school seniors as a part of the college application process. He is also expanding the Advanced Placement program, which offers college-level classes and tests for high school students.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/david-coleman-common-core-sat_n_3818107.html

New information on Common Core “alignment” by the ACT, SAT, and even GED exams raises questions about the impact Common Core will have on private and homeschooled students and their ability to “opt out” of the federally incentivized standards if they want to apply for college.

David Coleman, new head of the College Board—which administers the SAT—said in an interview with Education Week that one of his top priorities is to align the SAT with the new standards. “The Common Core provides substantial opportunity to make the SAT even more reflective of what higher education wants.”
http://dailysignal.com/2013/06/23/common-cores-nationalizing-tentacles-sat-act-and-ged-alignment/

Amnesty and Common Core: Two Sides of the Same Coin – Part I
“economic justice goals of Common Core as presented by David Coleman”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3296550/posts

[Chickensoup]

so stop taking the SATs. Take the ACT, the accuplacer.

[Liberty Valance]

I heard Dana Perino talking about this today on the Five.

[waverna]

In a perfect world this would just extend homeschooling to post secondary learning, which could probably begin by age 15 or 16.