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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (286697)5/4/2006 11:41:19 AM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) of 1574794
 
The lost generation
Randolph Schmid, author of the article "Lost generation can't find states with map or wits" (Page 1, yesterday) evinced surprise that so many young Americans are ignorant of geography.
Well I'm surprised.
I'm surprised the results were not worse than reported inasmuch as the schools stopped teaching geography — as well as history and civics — a long time ago.
The schools also have gotten rid of most geography textbooks, so it's a wonder any recent graduate of an American school knows any geography.
People who went to school before the 1960s might be surprised to learn that the courses on geography, history and civics that they took have been replaced with an amalgamation of the three subjects, called social studies.
The result is that children receive a hodgepodge of information on the subjects, the accuracy and coherence of which depends on the quality of the teacher, and few teachers are good enough to wing it on their own.
American schools will never produce graduates who really know geography, history and civics until they get rid of social studies and go back to the old approach.
However, that is unlikely to happen with the American Federation of Teachers included in the group that has been formed to solve the problem. The AFT helped create social studies in the first place, and it almost certainly will fight any effort to do away with it.
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