
Exclusive — Stanley Kurtz: AP US History Battle Worse Than Common Core
Stanley Kurtz believes the battle over AP U.S. History is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards.

Stanley Kurtz believes the battle over AP U.S. History is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards.

Last week, Danniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, cited recent changes the College Board made to the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework as a “victory” for conservatives. Experts on the framework, however, think that is quite a stretch.

The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.

The Georgia House Rules Committee has failed to advance a highly popular resolution that would have the state’s congressional delegation urge a competitive market for Advanced Placement tests, the federal subsidies for which go entirely to the College Board.