WHERE IN THE WORLD? - Keith W Stump - May 1985

Keith W Stump

Geographic illiteracy has become a disease of epidemic proportions! Why? The world of education is still reeling from the shock! A report released just last December by the Association of American Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education declared, in no uncertain terms, that the United States is rapidly becoming a nation of "geography illiterates"! The report cited a 1983 test in geography developed by prominent educators and administered by the Dallas Times-Herald to American 12-year-olds. More than 20 percent of the students could not find the United States on a world map. Another 20 percent identified Brazil as the United States! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library