IN RESPONSE TO MY POST ON THE COLLEGE BOARD’S AP HISTORY CHANGES, Stanley Kurtz emails that people shouldn’t get cocky:

It’s true that the College Board has been thrown back on its heels by this battle, but it’s way too early to declare victory. The changes to the APUSH framework are largely cosmetic. The textbooks and course syllabi have all been conformed to the controversial 2014 framework. There are no immediate plans to make changes to the guts of the course based on the revised framework. Even if there were, little would change because most of what’s happened is removal of biased phrasing, not the addition of major new directions.

The College Board is trying to deflect criticism and hold off possible business competition, without truly changing its U.S. history course. The only lasting and reliable solution is the creation of a company advised by top traditionalist historians that can compete with the College Board. Only that can restore choice to states and local school districts. Relying on the good faith of the College Board will not work. You can see this in the brand new AP European history framework, which shares all the biases of the original APUSH framework, very much including hostility to capitalism. You can find my take on the 2015 APUSH changes here, and links within that piece to further responses to the APUSH changes.

Eternal vigilance and all that.