In my high school AP US History class, I was taught that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but over States’ Rights. (This was in Texas & I suddenly had the depressing thought that what Erin says might not be true there anymore, at least at certain universities).
Melissa Kutner
When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.
Erin Grievances
In theory, "advanced placement" course in high schools are meant to give students a head start on college-level work, but in practice these courses serve as *replacements* for that college-level work, and very poor ones at that.
Kevin M. Kruse
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Kind of interesting essay with a bad title, but IDK how you talk about problems in historical education today without even saying the words "advanced placement."
Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.
