“To meet workforce needs, scholarships must be available to support the best and brightest students who choose to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in geography”

The authors of this article are from American Geographical Society and discuss the results of a study that indicate that Americans want more geography education in the school systems today.  Often geography gets buried within the social studies curriculum and it is up to the individual teacher to ensure how much geography actually gets taught in the classroom.  This is not a new problem; in a bulletin published by the Bureau of Education in 1922, it was said, “So long as it is assumed that history is all of the social studies the elements of the others will be neglected as they are now.”  This article provides good sources to help educators argue for more geographic content in the curriculum at all educational levels.

Tags: Geography Education, geo-inspiration.

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