Elites Stripping “America” from US History Courses, Replacing it with Globalism, Common Core Collectivism

Photo Credit: NY Post As the 55 distinguished members of the National Association of Scholars explained this week, the teaching of American history faces “a grave new risk.”

So-called “reforms” by the College Board, which holds a virtual monopoly on AP testing across the country, “abandon a rigorous insistence on content” in favor of downplaying “American citizenship and American world leadership in favor of a more global and transnational perspective” . . .

It’s no coincidence College Board President David Coleman supervised the Beltway operation that drafted, disseminated and profits from the federal Common Core standards.

The social-justice warriors of government education have long sought, as the NAS [National Association of Scholars] signatories correctly diagnosed it, “to de-center American history and subordinate it to a global and heavily social-scientific perspective.”

Their mission isn’t to impart knowledge, but to instigate racial, social and class divisions.

Their mission is not to assimilate new generations of students into the American way of life, but to turn them against capitalism, individualism and American exceptionalism in favor of left-wing activism and poisonous identity politics. (Read more from “Elites Stripping “America” from US History Courses, Replacing it with Globalism, Common Core Collectivism” HERE)

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