To the editor: I take issue with Noah Berlatsky’s claim that teachers are trying to strip the past of relevance. I am a retired teacher who taught AP art history for more than 20 years and AP world ...

Art AP World History Makes a Turn Toward Eurocentrism The College Board’s recent decision to begin their curriculum for Advanced Placement (AP) World History at the year 1450 CE will omit millennia of ...

Instead of making students memorize facts, we should teach them to ask questions. Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school students take Advanced Placement history classes in pursuit of ...

The American Historical Association this week urged the College Board to rethink its plan to effectively begin the Advanced Placement World History curriculum in the year 1450. In so doing it joined a ...

Like any Advanced Placement course, AP World History is intense, requiring students to absorb lots of sophisticated, detail-laden information in a relatively short amount of time: usually, a single ...

This year, high school students taking Advanced Placement U.S. history in some parts of the country are getting a lesson in current affairs. And in partisanship. The College Board, which creates ...

The College Board writes the framework as a guide for teachers The College Board released its new Advanced Placement U.S. History teaching guidelines Thursday, following a year in which the previous ...

My daughter hates her AP U.S. history class. She hates studying for the Advanced Placement exams in early May. That’s not because she’s a bad student. It’s because she’s a good student. She just read ...

In Oklahoma, state lawmakers are debating a bill that would axe the teaching of Advanced Placement courses in U.S. history. The reason? Some believe the classes focus too much on what is "bad about ...