August 17, 2015
Article: APUSH Teachers Speak
Ashley Thorne
High school AP U.S. history teachers are coming forward to share their dissatisfaction with the current version of the College Board’s APUSH framework.
August 11, 2015
Article: The New History Guidelines are Better
KC Johnson
KC Johnson gives four reasons the revised APUSH standards are an improvement.
August 4, 2015
MTC: The New History Guidelines Are Better
KC Johnson
I previously wrote about the new AP U.S. History guidelines (APUSH). The guidelines generated considerable criticism—in so small part because they seemed intent on evading state guidelines regarding t......
June 8, 2015
Article: APUSH: The New, New, New History
Peter Wood
The new APUSH reforms has its roots in a longstanding attempt to claim American history for leftist political purposes.
June 10, 2015
MTC: The New History Standards—a Reaction Is Coming
KC Johnson
Lynne Cheney had a high-profile piece in the April 1 Wall Street Journal critiquing the draft exam associated with the new Advanced Placement U.S. history standards (APUSH). (I’ve written on these sta......
June 4, 2015
MTC: What's American About American History?
John S. Rosenberg
On June 2 a group of 55 scholars released an Open Letter criticizing the College Board’s newly revised “Course and Exam Description, Including the Curriculum Framework” for Advanced Placement in Unite......
May 1, 2015
Article: APUSH Resources: Documents, Commentaries, and Critiques
Glenn Ricketts
A compendium of relevant documents and critiques of the new AP US History standards
May 28, 2015
MTC: COLLEGE SHOULDN’T BE JOB TRAINING, BUT…
J.M. Anderson
Like many commentators and candidates, Fareed Zakaria, the eloquent host of CNN’s GPS, has turned out a new book on higher education. In Defense of a Liberal Education laments that today’s students ar......