The College Board, which is an organization that designs Advanced Placement (AP) courses in high schools across the country, is embroiled in a controversy with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over its course content and curriculum….
Topic: Advanced Placement
Florida rejects AP African American studies over ‘woke’ material
The state of Florida rejected The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) course on African-American studies over allegations of “woke” material. Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the state education agency rejected the course because it pushed…
College Board announced an Advanced Placement African American studies course
The College Board, which administers college preparation classes in high schools, announced that it will expand its African American Studies Advanced Placement (AP) course to at least 200 high schools in the 2023-2024 school year….
China to Suspend Advanced Placement History Tests by 2020
Multiple Advanced Placement history tests will not be administered in mainland China by 2020 because the Communist Party is clamping down on material that goes counter to party propaganda.
Group: AP European History Exams Ignore Christopher Columbus, Magellan and Important Subjects in History
Advanced Placement exams for European history are full of “progressive propaganda,” claimed a higher education group. The reason for those claims? Excluding Christopher Columbus from the course material.
Reinserting History in AP Courses
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The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle
A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater…
Common Core Great for Homeschooling
The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of Common Core. Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and…
College Board’s Biased Liberal Tests may have an Alternative
As WORLD reported, the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams are liberal and heavily biased: The College Board, the massive nonprofit organization responsible for the Advanced Placement Exam as well as the SAT and PSAT tests,…
Tragedy of U.S. History
On February 17th, an education bill was passed by the Oklahoma State House of Representatives Education Committee to “defund the current Advanced Placement U.S. History course framework and replace it with a curriculum deemed more…