After multiple boards of education throughout the U.S. have taken steps to denounce or counter the new framework for the AP U.S. History course, Nebraska will consider condemning the new test.
A Republican member of the Nebraska state Board of Education drafted a resolution to denounce the “bias” in the new exam based on the Texas measure overriding the College Board’s changes to the course, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Board member Glen Flint said his proposal would “strongly recommend” that the College Board change the course to teach American history “without an ideological bias.”
“We’re not telling kids they can’t take AP U.S. History or teachers they shouldn’t teach AP U.S. History,” Flint told the World-Herald. “We’re just telling the College Board to go back and take a look at some of the concerns that have been brought up about the balance in the framework and maybe revise that.”
The measure would also call on the College Board to make sure the framework with the course is compatible with Nebraska history standards.
Conservatives have decried the new course curriculum as a “radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.”
The state schools board in Texas and state legislature in Tennessee have condemned the new course. And a local school board in Colorado has taken steps to counter the new course.
While a few board members support the proposal in Nebraska, it’s not clear that enough members have a problem with the new framework for the resolution to pass, according to the World-Herald. The board will discuss Flint’s proposal at a Thursday meeting.
