In case you haven’t been following the debate over College Board’s revision of the Advanced Placement course in American history, here’s a good summary of the situation, written on the Federalist blog by Larry Krieger and Jane Robbins. The two have been raising the alarm about the revisions. (Newsweek interviewed Krieger, who has forty years of experience as an American history teacher, here; Robbins is with the American Principles Project.)

Advanced Placement courses have become big forces in high school; they enable many students to place out of introductory college courses. If the changes are as bad as Krieger and Robbins say, students will enter college with an even more distorted view of American history than they have now.

Adding to the brouhaha is the fact that the person who oversaw the rewrite, David Coleman, is also viewed as the designer of the controversial Common Core standards, as Mary Grabar explains in a Pope Center discussion of the potential impact of those standards on higher education. The Common Core is getting a little shaky, as some states reconsider them. Perhaps the Advanced Placement revision may undergo some revision as well.