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Studies Show Most Adults Can't Pass A Basic World Geography Exam. Can You?
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (26+ words) Most adults fail this extremely basic world geography exam. Let's see if you can beat the odds and prove you've got a ton of worldly knowledge....
Next generation is failing at history
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (293+ words) I recently took an online history test with questions drawn from standardized tests for eighth-graders. I guess I did better than a lot of eighth-graders because I answered all the questions correctly but then I was a college history major…...
Texas Just Voted to Rewrite History — and Students Will Pay the Price
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (358+ words) The board’s nine appointed content advisors also removed standards that defined racial segregation as “keeping people apart based on the color of their skin” and specified that Africans endured slavery in the U.S. because of their race. That’s a…...
OPINION | Texas Has A Theory Of Education
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (642+ words) A state curriculum, a reading list, and new social studies standards add up to a coherent—and unfashionable—vision of what public schools are for. This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a…...
Basic Law: Torah Study cleared for second and third readings
1+ week, 2+ day ago (132+ words) The Knesset House Committee approved the proposed Basic Law: Torah Study on Thursday evening for its second and third readings.During the discussion, the committee adopted an amendment submitted by its chairman to remove the second clause of the bill,…...
Texas has a theory of education
1+ week, 2+ day ago (675+ words) This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a required literature reading list for its public schools. These changes follow Texas’s 2024 release of its “Bluebonnet” curriculum, a package of instructional resources for elementary school,…...
Awe and Overview Effect Enhance Geography Learning
2+ week, 2+ day ago (175+ words) University of Phoenix College of General Studies announces the publication of a new peer-reviewed article in The Geography Teacher, authored by Jacquelyn Kelly, Ph.D., associate dean, College of General Studies; Dianna Gielstra, Ph.D., full-time faculty, Environmental Science Program; Tomáš J....
Tale of two politicized social studies standards: Minnesota and Texas
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1220+ words) Both Minnesota and Texas are in the process of implementing new social studies standards that brought backlash for their politicized origin, alleged instructional bias, and sweeping changes. Besides the fact that Texas boasts the beginning of Interstate-35 and Minnesota the…...
What the State Board of Education approved
2+ week, 4+ day ago (566+ words) TEXAS — The State Board of Education gave the green light to an overhaul of social studies standards for kindergarten through eighth grade and approved a new required reading list. It will change what over 5 million public school students in Texas…...
Ambition can defeat geography
2+ week, 5+ day ago (583+ words) MoldPres correspondent visited major agricultural complexes near the city of Yinchuan to understand how the Chinese model of smart agriculture works where it would seem impossible. Agriculture in extreme conditions Ningxia is characterized by an arid and semi-arid continental climate....