<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">My sister works for the College Board; Jonathan is correct. Better to write Austin and complain about what’s said, and not said, in Texas’s K-12 school textbooks.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 16, 2020, at 9:41 AM, Jonathan Best <jbest@wesleyan.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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I believe that Mark's concern is misdirected, the prep or "cram" books for the SAT and AP are produced to make a profit by publishers that are wholly independent of the College Board: Kaplan, Barron's, Princeton Review, etc. They are the publishers that produced
the stacks of paperback volumes appearing in the video clip. Publishing companies of this sort hire authors, hopefully with appropriate expertise, to write such cram books for high school students. So, writing to complain to the folks at College Board about
what appears in those tomes is about as effective and relevant as writing to Apple to complain about the often less than historically accurate stuff that appears—and almost instantly reappears if someone offers a correction—in Wikipedia entries on early Korea.
It would probably be most responsible to actually read the texts to see if they are as offensive to your understanding of history as they are represented to be in the brief JBTV before you take the trouble to complain to the publisher of any particular volume.<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">"It's harder to write fiction than nonfiction. Fiction has to make sense."<span> —</span> Tom Clancy<span></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KS] Distortions by SAT and AP test prep</font>
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<div dir="ltr">And -- I should have mentioned the report on the SAT is at minute post 31:07 -- sorry, I should have helped you find it in the hour+ long news program.
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:28 PM Mark Peterson <<a href="mailto:markpetersonemeritus@gmail.com">markpetersonemeritus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have had the following news spot from the Korean TV station JBTV forwarded to me. The report shows the SAT and AP World History prep books have some Chinese-biased distortions in their statements and maps. The general thrust of the books
is to imply greater suzerainty over Korea than was historically true.
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<div>Here we go again. Koreanist excluded from the textbook projects. </div>
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<div>There was a textbook a few years ago that referred to Mimana, a Japanese colony in Korea in early historic times. It seems that when the textbook editors find an "Asian" expert for the Asian sections of the textbooks, the chances of getting Korea's story
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<div>If you would like to add your voice to those who are writing the College Board, the parent organization of the SAT and AP World History test, please click on this link, fill in the form, and let them know that distortions about Korean history should not
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<div><a href="https://collegeboard.tfaforms.net/21" target="_blank">https://collegeboard.tfaforms.net/21</a><br>
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<div>As Peter, Paul and Mary used to sing, "When will they ever learn? When will they ever-er learn?"</div>
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<div>best to you all -- stay safe,</div>
<div>Mark Peterson</div>
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