This Sad Sign Perfectly Sums Up How Liberals View History

The good news is that conservatives have won a big fight against the ‘radically revisionist’ American History curriculum the leftist College Board tried to impose on American school children:

The Blaze reports:

After persistent pushback from conservatives, the framework for high school Advanced Placement U.S. history has been revised to give more weight to the country’s positive past — and even includes a new section on “American exceptionalism,” Newsweek reported.

The previous incarnation of AP American history standards — which took a decade to put in place — were released last year to a volley of criticism. Names such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were omitted and detractors said negatives in U.S. history were emphasized while positives — such as America’s role in winning World War I and World War II — were tamped down.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said the course was so anti-American that those who completed it would be “ready to sign up for ISIS.”

Colorado high schoolers hit the headlines last September when students from several schools walked out of classes to protest the new curriculum.

Oklahoma, Georgia and Texas introduced bills threatening to pull the course, Newsweek said, adding that the matter reached the ears of the Republican National Committee, which passed a resolution saying the AP U.S. framework reflected “a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.” The recommendation was for Congress to withhold federal funding to the College Board until a new revision was cast.

So the College Board began accepting comments from teachers and others last fall, Newsweek said, and then in April it was announced that revisions would be published in July.

Now Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams are back in — and the accomplishments of America’s founders have been reemphasized. And as for the new section on “American exceptionalism,” a College Board official told Newsweek the phrase didn’t make it to the 2014 edition because the assumption was that the concept didn’t need spelling out.