The College Board adopted a new methodology for scoring Advanced Placement course exam—and as a result, the percentage of students passing in nine exams has increased over the last three years. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the United States, AP World History teachers and students are rallying against proposed changes they contend narrow the scope of the course to the period beginning with European conquests. The ...

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At Freeport Area High School, every AP World History student scored a passing grade on this year’s AP exam amid unusually difficult circumstances. David DiSanti, the AP World History teacher at ...

Three public schools in California led the nation in helping Latino students outperform their counterparts in other states on Advanced Placement exams in Spanish language, Spanish literature and world ...

The Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) announced an updated policy for accepting history credits from the Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) and other ...

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, ...

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 ...

I taught AP U.S. History in the late '80s and early '90s. Test scores depended -- not surprisingly -- on intensive study, academic rigor and, most especially, a brisk pace of instruction. In non-AP ...