Brits had code of rigid racial superiority, which Spanish, French, and Dutch did not

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AP history now teaching that British had code of rigid racial superiority, which Spanish, French, and Dutch did not



Confessions Of An AP Teacher: College Board’s New History Curriculum Is Terrible

Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum needed a redesign, but not this kind.

Proponents of the College Board’s redesigned Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) curricular framework claim it provides flexibility for teachers and a welcome answer to traditional courses demanding the memorization of what Charles Dickens might call, “imperial gallons of facts.” The APUSH redesign emphasizes historical thinking skills and its framework document features key themes and concepts rather than laundry lists of topics.

Critics of the College Board’s redesigned APUSH framework decry it as a Common Core-inspired, leftist attempt at the social engineering of our best and brightest. APUSH students will be lulled into viewing the United States as an oppressor of the underserved through a course of study which eliminates from consideration key figures, facts, and events essential to an understanding of America as a nation with a conscience.


Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between. It is hard to believe the College Board’s intent is leftist indoctrination. However, the current criticism of APUSH is hardly “much ado about nothing.” The redesigned curricular framework could use a redesign.

Let’s Start with the Obvious Bias

The framework begins with an anti-Anglo Saxon colonial bias. On page 36 of the framework, we read under Key Concept 2.1 of the “strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority” which caused the British system to embrace slavery and violently confront “native peoples.” The framework earlier describes this British system as a “rigid racial hierarchy,” since, unlike their Spanish, French, and Dutch contemporaries, “who accepted intermarriage and cross-racial sexual unions with native peoples,” the English rarely “intermarried with either native peoples or Africans” (35).


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Confessions Of An AP Teacher: New AP U.S. History Is Terrible