The Illinois Review reports:
David Coleman, an architect of Common Core, is now president of the College Board responsible for aligning the SAT to the Common Core. Even so he found time to basically rewrite American History. Beginning in the fall of this year, close to a half million high school sophomores and juniors will be learning from a new set of AP history standards. Coleman's detailed 98-page document indicates the revised education material will be applicable in the Fall of 2014.
Jane Robbins, a senior fellow for APP Education of the American Principles Project and a retired AP U.S. History teacher from Pennsylvania, said the following about the Coleman-style AP history standards:
"The new "Framework" inculcates a consistently negative view of American culture. For example, the units on colonial America stress the development of a rigid racial hierarchy and a 'strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority.' The Framework ignores the United States' founding principles and their influence in inspiring the spread of democracy and galvanizing the movement to abolish slavery. The Framework continues this theme by reinterpreting Manifest Destiny -- rather than a belief that America has a mission to spread democracy and new technologies across the continent, the Framework teaches that it 'was built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority."
Coleman's "Framework" dismisses the "Declaration of Independence" and the principles so eloquently expressed therein. Benjamin Franklin and James Madison are not mentioned, and George Washington is minimized to a small snippet from his farewell address. Ironically, two pages later the "Framework" grants teachers the flexibility to discuss the architecture of Spanish missions. It can be surmised that Coleman rates the architecture of Spanish missions above honoring the heroes of 1776!
You think it can't get worse than this? There's more:
Currently being used in Brevard County, Florida is a Prentiss Hall's World History book that devotes a 72-page chapter to Islam and only one small paragraph for Judaism and Christianity, which are embedded in other chapters. According to Prentiss Hall, the book is balanced on all religions, causing parents to wonder how many other falsehoods and indoctrination methods are being used in Common Core without parents’ knowledge .
It's time to haul David Coleman in front of the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations for his un-American activities.
