{"id":15,"date":"2015-05-25T20:28:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-01-18T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:19:07","slug":"oklahoma-legislature-targets-ap-history-framework-for-being-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2015\/05\/25\/oklahoma-legislature-targets-ap-history-framework-for-being-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Legislature Targets AP History Framework for Being Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Inside Higher Ed: &#8220;American history is constantly debated not only by historians but by politicians. So it was largely unsurprising when some Republicans\u00a0started to criticize the new Advanced Placement U.S. history framework last year for allegedly downplaying positive elements of America\u2019s past. Many historians were caught off guard last week, however, when the criticism grew legs, at least in Oklahoma: a legislative committee there easily passed <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us\/cf_pdf\/2015-16%20INT\/hB\/HB1380%20INT.PDF\">a bill<\/a> declaring the new AP curriculum an \u201cemergency\u201d threatening the \u201cpublic peace, health and safety,\u201d to be defunded in the coming school year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/02\/23\/oklahoma-legislature-targets-ap-us-history-framework-being-negative\">Read the entire post here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Inside Higher Ed: &#8220;American history is constantly debated not only by historians but by politicians. So it was largely unsurprising when some Republicans\u00a0started to criticize the new Advanced Placement U.S. history framework last year for allegedly downplaying positive elements of America\u2019s past. Many historians were caught off guard last week, however, when the criticism&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2015\/05\/25\/oklahoma-legislature-targets-ap-history-framework-for-being-negative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}