The College Board has been in the process of updating its Advanced Placement courses, and they recently released an extensive revamp of its AP European History framework. Last year, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) wrote a blistering response to the College Board’s first attempt and said the Board was “warping and gutting the history of Europe to make it serve today’s progressive agenda,” according to National Review. The College Board listened to the critique, and in response, released a revised version in late 2017. But NAS doesn’t seem to think the Board has addressed the problem. David Randall, writing for NAS, says that the Board’s edits were “superficial” and “failed to correct for ideological bias.” But Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison write in National Review that though NAS’s initial critique was “appropriate and timely,” the most recent criticism are “off-base and even counterproductive.” They think the College Board “engaged in substantial, appropriate revisions in response to the concerns that were raised.”
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