Last year, the College Board released a comprehensive framework for teaching Advanced Placement American history (APUSH). It was an earnest effort to help high-school teachers understand what students should learn, but content-wise it was pretty awful.
The College Board’s new framework for teaching Advanced Placement U.S. History has become a flashpoint in the education debate. Much of the criticism is hysterical and inaccurate . . . but not all of it. The critics make a legitimate case that the framework is ideologically slanted and infused with 21st-century progressivist bias.
At this very moment, millions of high-achievers are waiting to be challenged. Meeting their needs is another objective worthy of a great nation. They deserve our encouragement, not our indifference...
The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Education Next’s 10th anniversary, in which the editors assessed the school reform movement’s victories and challenges to see just how successful reform efforts have been...
For about two years now, President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have been co-opting much of the GOP playbook on education...But on one key issue — spending — they have acted like traditional borrow-and-spend Democrats, only more so...
Suzy is a good reader...in North Carolina. But what happens when her parents move next door to South Carolina, where standards are much higher? By Paul E. Peterson and Frederick M. Hess.
