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Panich52

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Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:03 AM Aug 2015

Did the College Board Cave to Political Pressure Over AP History?

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Did the College Board Cave to Political Pressure Over AP History?

After months of controversy, the College Board has released a new framework for teaching AP US History. Does this mean the political pressure tactics worked?

http://ncac.org/blog/did-the-college-board-cave-to-political-pressure-over-ap-history/



Repubs' phobia of facts infects education. But one fact they tacitly admit: knowldge is power, so they revise history texts to reflect their twisted image of our nation's past and raise a generation of the ignorant.

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Did the College Board Cave to Political Pressure Over AP History? (Original Post) Panich52 Aug 2015 OP
Probably. Textbook publishers have been caving for decades. merrily Aug 2015 #1
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