My daughter hates her AP U.S. history class. She hates studying for the Advanced Placement exams in early May. That’s not because she’s a bad student. It’s because she’s a good student ...

Advanced Placement US history is something of a niche issue. About 300,000 students sat for the AP US History exam this year — roughly equivalent to 10 percent of all graduating high school seniors.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Some Williamson County School board members backtracked on their initial hesitation about approving an AP Psychology textbook, ultimately voting unanimously in ...

During the 11 years Trevor Packer has run the College Board’s Advanced Placement program, teachers of AP U.S. history have bemoaned the wide-open nature of the AP final exam’s multiple-choice ...

Florida’s rejection of an AP course is the latest salvo in a very old war. ... In 1932, when Virginia began using an American history textbook written by Massachusetts historian David Muzzey, ...

When I was a high school junior in New Orleans taking AP American history, my teacher assigned us a paperback book. Slim in contrast to our hulking required textbook, it was a funny, compelling ...

As African American–history education comes under attack, a conversation about the continued relevance of Carter G. Woodson’s 1933 book, "The Mis-education of the Negro" ...

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...

The dirty secret of American economic history in the 20 th century is that virtually all growth came when we got serious about cutting top income tax rates. The APUSH, the grand exam, is as alert ...

Women’s History Month is a reminder that women’s stories in US history should be fully integrated into the national narrative, beginning in high school classrooms, writes Elena Sheppard.