The Advanced Placement World History course will no longer include precolonial civilizations. Scott Simon talks to Amanda DoAmaral, a former AP World History teacher, about why she opposes the change.

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 ...

Access to rigorous, Advanced Placement coursework has expanded significantly over the past decade, but not without serious gripes from some parents, teachers, and media commentators. A popular ...

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 ...

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When the College Board created its Advanced Placement World History curriculum in 2001, it was a bold and ambitious undertaking — a single course covering 10,000 years of human history from the ...

You have /3 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 ...

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 ...

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