The Chief Academic Officer of North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has announced that the state’s widely criticized draft standards for U.S. history have been scrapped. Common Core first wrote on February 4th about the state’s move to drop pre-1877 history from the survey course taken by North Carolina 11th graders. Our criticism was picked up and amplified by Education Week, Joanne Jacobs, and others. NCDPI has since received 7,000 letters criticizing their draft standards.
Now NCDPI says they will revise their proposal to change the state’s U.S. history standards and that they plan to release a new draft in April. We’ll be watching.
James Elias and Lynne Munson