In fall 2019, the College Board will implement a new curriculum for one of its Advanced Placement courses: AP World History will now be called AP World History: Modern. More than 300,000 students sat ...

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 ...

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 ...

These history quizzes cover every corner of the globe and various difficulty levels. History buffs should have no problem with them, but everyone else...well. Those who don't remember history are ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

No Roman Empire. No Mongols. No ancient Chinese dynasties or early Indian states. And you can forget about the Incan and Aztec empires before the Europeans dropped their anchors. That is a sample of ...

There are no shortcuts on the road to earning the required number of credits to graduate college. But there are head starts. By earning a sufficiently high score on an Advanced Placement exam, ...

Since 2002, the AP World History course has covered thousands of years of human activity around the planet, starting 10,000 years back. But now the College Board, which owns the Advanced Placement ...

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 ...

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 ...