Apr 17 2008
Young Americans geographically challanged
Not too many weeks ago I had a conversation about how frustrating it is in this age of technology and
Google Maps that some high school instructors apparently teach geography by having their students use crayons to color maps. Now comes this article about Young Americans geographically challenged.
Here’s an exerp:
Despite wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn’t locate Louisiana on a map–and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.
Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn’t find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, according to a Roper poll conducted for National Geographic.
Click on the above link for the full article.
