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  • May 2008
    • It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

      It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

      (Newser) - The impressive skills of 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal—the nation's new geography bee champ—are all too rare. In fact, lots of Americans are geographically illiterate to an appalling degree, writes Evan Sparks in the American . At some point, the nation decided to leave the subject out of school curricula. Geography, for example, is the only core subject named in the No Child Left Behind Act that does not receive federal funding. More »

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      Iraq   children   education   No Child Left Behind   stupidity   Geography

  • August 2007

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