Re: “AP history course revised for 2015-16,” July 31 news story.
Do you remember the outcry last fall when Jefferson County School Board member Julie Williams questioned the 2014 rewrite of the College Board AP History course?
Who can forget the orchestrated “outrage” that ensued, peppered with outlandish accusations from union members and students with allegations that the conservative board was trying to censor U.S. history, when the truth was that a simple request had been made to review the new AP course for accuracy?
Early this summer, 55 distinguished historians and education specialists issued a report condemning the College Board’s 2014 rewrite. Last week, under nationwide pressure, the board published rewritten parts of its revision to include a more balanced view of U.S. history.
Is this not proof that Williams has been vindicated? Can we now expect Jeffco’s history teachers — who, last fall, incited their students to believe that the conservative board wanted to censor American history — to apologize for misleading them, and causing the staged weeklong protests against the new board members?
Deanna Miller, Golden
This letter was published in the Aug. 5 edition.
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