College Board will released a new edition of the AP U.S. History exam this summer following significant backlash from conservatives, who decried the new framework for the course as too negative and ...

High school history teachers are fighting back against changes to Advanced Placement World History that would eliminate content on pre-colonial Africa, Asia, Americas, and the Middle East. The dispute ...

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 global human history and may further support a ...

Several years ago, when he was one of a handful of academics on a commission to overhaul how Advanced Placement U.S. History would be taught, Fred Anderson did not foresee a political firestorm.

The debate over the new Advanced Placement U.S. History framework is rolling through the states. Oklahoma’s House education committee last week approved a bill that would have forbidden schools from ...

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 ...

If you ask the company that runs the Advanced Placement tests, it’ll say it was trying to do world history teachers a favor. There’s just too much history to cover and not enough time. So why not cut ...