BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – High-school history teachers nationwide will give their top students a dark retelling of U.S. history this fall, courtesy of the College Board, a nonprofit college readiness firm led by Common Core architect David Coleman. The College Board – which administers AP (advanced placement) courses and tests – is rolling out a revised curriculum framework for AP U.S. history, offering the 450,000 students who take AP U.S. history classes a hero-free account of America’s deeply stained past. It deletes the Pilgrims, John Winthrop, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln and other long-celebrated figures central to America’s founding and growth. There is also the glaring absence of uplifting aspects of the U.S. civil rights struggle, including the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the Tuskegee Institute, and the Navajo code talkers. Coleman explained, “people that actively participated in the shaping of this country also bring a negative aspect to their time period, which I feel is not very motivational to students. Instead, I think we should focus more on the positive things in the present and interesting contemporary people, such as cell phone apps, the growing use of personal drones, and the rise of the Kardashians.”