SBOEs Tincy Miller Says APUSH Is a Fight for the Soul of America

By Tincy Miller State Board of Education District 12 As you may have been reading or hearing in the news the past few days the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has been meeting in Austin this week to chart a course for our states school children to learn history over the next 10 years. If you have not here is your alert: The College Boards new Advanced Placement U.S. History Framework (APUSH) dictates how teachers should cover the required history topics with our brightest high school sophomores and juniors... and it reflects a radically revisionist view of American history.    History teacher expert Larry Krieger says:

The redesigned Framework inculcates a consistently negative view of American history by highlighting oppressors and exploiters while ignoring the dreamers and innovators who built our country."

** It is deficient in a grounding in the lives and character of our founders in our founding documents and generally in the facts about our countrys development. ** Reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nations history - with little or no discussion of the Founding Fathers and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. ** Excludes discussion of the U.S. military - no battles commanders or heroes. ** The Framework presents a biased and inaccurate view of many important events in American history:

• the motivations and actions of 17th-19th century settlers
• American involvement in World War II
• and the development and victory in the Cold War.

** Omits many significant individuals and events that greatly shaped our nations history. To name just a few:

• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• Albert Einstein
• Jonas Salk
• George Washington Carver
• Rosa Parks
• Dr. Martin Luther King
• Tuskegee Airmen
• the Battle of Gettysburg
• the Holocaust
• D-Day
• liberation of the Nazi concentration camps …

** It is really the fight for the soul of America! There is no choice but to fight it in every way we know how as hard as we know how! We all as Texans must alert our Legislators to this attack on our great country and demand that the APUSH be rewritten in a transparent manner to accurately reflect U.S. history without political bias and to respect the sovereignty of Texas over its education curriculum.

EDITORs NOTE: Dont miss Millers update on the latest SBOE actions to address the dilemma of the CSCOPE curriculum being used in the classrooms of some of Texas 5 million school children.   

Geraldine Tincy Miller represents Dist. 12 on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE).  An SBOE Member for 28 of the past 30 years Miller was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to serve as Chair from 2003-2007.