Liberal website complains that Fox News Cherry-Picks From AP History Guidelines

Fox News host Steve Doocy claimed that the College Board has "all but dismissed" seminal works in American history for use in advanced placement courses -- including the Mayflower Compact, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech -- to raise fears that "U.S. history may be history" in American schools.  

Fox News has spent the week hyping an open letter published by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), a conservative group critical of the Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History Course framework that the College Board released last year. Fifty-five scholars signed the letter, which claims the revised guidelines focus on "the conflict between social groups" rather than "sources of national unity and cohesion."  An NAS press release about the letter says the new framework "ignores American exceptionalism."

In a "Trouble with Schools" segment on June 12, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy claimed that "seminal works in the canon of American history have been all but dismissed by the new guidelines for the AP History issued by the College Board." Guest Whitney Neal, of the Bill of Rights Institute, said the College Board changed the guidelines "because they have an agenda to push."