If your children plan to enroll in the Advanced Placement History program be forewarned that it has been changed and no longer teaches the traditional history course. Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project warns us that the College Board’s Advanced Placement History Course has been transformed, now that David Coleman, reported architect of the Common Core, is head of the College Board. Watch the video clip.

“Critical thinking” is another one of those terms which have been perverted by the education program developers. They know that parents want their children to become critical thinkers, so they use the term to introduce concepts and lessons to which parents might otherwise object. A few months ago, students in the Rialto School District in California were given a “critical thinking” assignment — to write a Holocaust-denying essay. Read more…

Find out more about semantic deception from our website, linked  here.

Thomas Sowell, author of Inside American Education,  has been following education for decades.   He explains that John Dewey re-defined the role of a teacher.. “…not as a transmitter of a society’s culture to the young, but as an agent of change — someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a […]

A dad in Florida was furious at what he found in his son’s backpack.

Read the article: “Dad furious after finding this crayon-written paper in Florida 4th grader’s backpack: “I am willing to give up some of my Constitutional rights…..to be safer”

These incidents happen frequently and have been going on for years. I know, because a similar incident happened in our family years ago. Only now, in these days of instant media, are we able to learn what is happening. Be alert! And maybe you’d like to consider homeschooling–we did, and it was terrific.

“We the People” is a civics curriculum with a patriotic-sounding name, but the title is misleading…

After months of debate, public input, and publicity, the Texas State Board finally adopted the new social studies curriculum.

“….The unelected education ‘experts’ proposed their history revisions such as eliminating Independence Day, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Edison, Daniel Boone and Neil Armstrong, and replacing Christmas with Diwali……”

However, the 2010 Texas State Board of Education voted by a 10-5 margin to reinstate traditional history.

Jesus was a Palestinian? That’s what one public school textbook says.

Imagine an outline for the teaching of American history in which George Washington makes only a fleeting appearance and is never described as our first president.

Revisionist history was already happening in the 1990s. This essay is a shapshot of what was happening over a decade ago.
– “Take a good, hard look at the textbooks your children are bringing home. You may find that the history is not how you remember it.”