Topic: advanced placement

Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)

Florida sanitizes slavery's history

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Brennan Linsley)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Students protest against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history, in front of their school, Jefferson High, in the Denver suburb of Edgewater, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. The Jefferson County School District says classes had to be canceled at Golden and Jefferson high schools on Monday because so many teachers called in sick. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Protests close schools in CO

Joanna Rothkopf