In 2006, the National Geographic Education Foundation and Roper Public Affairs published a report on geographic literacy. This report revealed a somewhat disturbing level of geographic literacy among Americans – both children and adults – citing a dramatic lack of understanding of geography, both local and world-wide. Internationally, despite the ongoing wars in the Middle […]
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