Historic fail? Greatest Americans missing from proposed curriculum

David Cole­man, Pres­i­dent of The Col­lege Board, and author of Com­mon Core State Standards New his­tory cur­ricu­lum stan­dards pro­posed for top high school stu­dents leave out such Amer­i­can icons as Ben­jamin Franklin and Mar­tin Luther King, Jr., paint colonists as big­ots and gloss over the Great­est Generation’s fight to save the world from Nazi Ger­many, […]