September 9, 2014      9:02 AM
Round 2: SBOE conservatives take another swing at Advanced Placement course
Resolution instructs College Board to rewrite its "anti-American revisionist history"
The culture wars at the State Board of Education seem to be
starting anew after Board Member Ken
Mercer placed a resolution on next week’s State Board of Education
agenda calling on the College Board to rewrite its new Advanced
Placement US History curriculum because negative anti-American bias out
of step with recent standards set by the Texas state board.
The College Board, including a Texas US history teacher on
the national writing team, addressed the State Board of Education at its July
meeting, noting the many elements noted to be missing from the old and new
curriculum were left up to the teachers to insert into their own lectures.
That did not please Mercer, who has been the most vocal
opponent of the course.
By Kimberly Reeves
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