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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The College Board apologized for a "culturally and racially insensitive" T-shirt and some comments made at its Advanced Placement World History exam grading event last month. On the front of the shirt ...