"As a history teacher and tutor to many students over the last 20 years, I have witnessed some independent schools in New York City revamp their history curriculum. Chronology and survey style courses are giving way to innovative approaches. In crafting their history curriculum and materials, schools and teachers are also intentionally including voices and stories previously marginalized by conventional approaches to the discipline.
In redesigning content, many history departments have reconsidered whether the traditional march through chronology best serves student learning. Instead, they are adopting thematic approaches to history, or merging with English departments to create interdisciplinary programs." …
Opinion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/noodleeducation/2017/08/16/are-history-courses-hurting-college-admissions/#7a8d1f722b76
I once did a tour of a primarily black charter school on the south side of Chicago. Like many similar schools, the walls were littered with posters and cutouts of historic and modern figures. Throughout the school, there were absolute zero images of anyone who was not black. I always wondered what kind of education these kids were getting.
https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-subject-tests-2016.pdf indicates that for 2016, 66,967 took the SAT subject test in US history and 15,542 took the SAT subject test in world history. That is quite small compared to the number of college bound high school seniors. Even those aiming for colleges that want SAT subject tests can choose other SAT subject tests if their high schools’ history courses do not cover what the SAT subject tests cover.