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Test history, geography and civics knowledge or schools won't teach it
Committed to "inquiry," Virginia social studies teachers want to "pause" a state test on students' history, geography and civics knowledge.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 52 min read


Where in the world is ... Greenland? Gaza? Ukraine? Iran?
It's impossible to discuss what's going on in the world without knowing geography.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 283 min read


The young and the senseless
Ignorance rather than malice could why one fifth of young Americans think the Holocaust is a "myth," and another 30 percent aren't sure,...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 11, 20232 min read
Kids don’t know geography — even with new maps
Boston Public Schools are putting “anti-racist” maps in second-, seventh-, and 11th-grade classrooms. What schools really need is a...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20172 min read
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