School Board Rejects Resolution To Condemn AP U.S. History Framework

A Global Studies class of 10th and 11th graders work at Bedford Academy High School on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 in New York. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott held a press conferenc... A Global Studies class of 10th and 11th graders work at Bedford Academy High School on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 in New York. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott held a press conference at the school to announce a record high Advance Placement (AP) and SAT exam scores for students city-wide. At Bedford Academy the number of students taking the SAT quadrupled since last year and tripled for AP since 2006, according to a press release statement. "About 98 percent of our students are going to college," said principal Adofo Muhammad, " But we won't be satisfied until it's a hundred." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) MORE LESS
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The Colorado state school board did not take up a resolution to denounce the AP U.S. History course framework and instead held a debate on the new exam during a Wednesday meeting, according to Chalkbeat Colorado.

After national Republicans decried the “radically revisionist view of American history” in the new framework, Paul Lundeen, the Republican chair of the Colorado Board of Education proposed a resolution bashing the exam. The resolution would have also asked the College Board to delay the new exam for a year.

The other members of the board, however, asked Lundeen to pull the resolution, and it will not be considered.

In its place, the board held a debate between Larry Krieger, the former history teacher who sparked conservative outrage over the new framework, and Fritz Fischer, a history professor at the University of Colorado.

Krieger said that the College Board committee “left out the positives.”

Fischer told Krieger that his concerns about the exam were “baseless.”

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  1. All I can say is…

    HA!

  2. Krieger said that the College Board committee "left out the positives."
    

    That’s the same line of trash where “the other side of slavery” comes from. Rubbish is rubbish, period.

  3. They didn’t need a history class to say “Fuck you.”

  4. Avatar for gr gr says:

    "School Board Rejects Resolution To Condemn AP U.S. History Framework’

    Good for them for showing they’ve got balls.

    We don’t need history that shows Jesus riding a dinosaur or history that shows the Confederate states as victims of Yankee aggression.

    Recall Socrates had to drink a cup of hemlock for forcing the youth of Athens to think.

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