Oklahoma tries to ban APUSH (& possibly others AP classes)

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This is disturbing. APUSH actually attempts to do what real history courses are supposed to which is present different ways to interpret and analyze our country's history.

Surprised this hasn't happened earlier.

You think the Right in this country wants people to even know of "different ways to interpret and analyze our country's history"?(nevermind whether students agree with them or not).

The purpose of education from the Right's perspective is to create loyal citizens and employees. They think questioning anything is a useless luxury at best, dangerous subversiveness at worst. This is nothing new.

How can a course made to fit a standardized test promote questioning of accepted interpretations of history? (not just rhetorical, I'm legitimately curious)

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How can a course made to fit a standardized test promote questioning of accepted interpretations of history? (not just rhetorical, I'm legitimately curious)

This is a semantic problem around the word "accepted." A standardized test can ask students to compare different interpretations of an event in an essay or in multiple choice questions. 

I can understand how an essay could do this. For a multiple choice question its not as clear to me. I remember when I took the SAT subject test on history - it just struck me as completely enmeshed in unreflective conventional wisdom. I don't like the College Board and their monopoly on this sort of thing, but I guess it's possible they did a decent job on this one.