Occasionally you find a gleaming nugget of good news in the dreary manure pile that is modern reportage. Today's example is from Newsweek, which reports the people responsible for the Advanced Placement U.S. History standards test - the College Board - have modified their curriculum to be less anti-American and more patriotic.
A new section on "American exceptionalism" now includes founding fathers Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams. Imagine leaving these amazing men out of U.S. History!
People found A.P. History to reflect a leftist, America-as-root-of-world-problems point of view, similar to that held by our President and, if we're honest, many academic historians. If the College Board has moved quickly enough and far enough to prevent wholesale dumping of the Common Core by patriotic communities and states is unknown. It may be too little improvement, done too late.
