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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some educators are up in arms over a recent proposal by the College Board to begin the AP World History exam’s scope in 1450 instead of the dawn of civilization. In justifying the move, the College ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Responding to criticism of its earlier plan to begin the Advanced Placement World History exam around ...

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 ...