Geography used to be one of those subjects everyone was expected to know at least a little bit about. Students learned ...

For much of the 20th century, geography knowledge was treated as a basic part of being informed about the world. Students memorized countries, capitals, oceans, rivers, and mountain ranges not just ...

Last year, only 34 percent of Americans could locate Ukraine on a map even as Congress debated billions in military aid that would shape global security. This geographic illiteracy isn’t just ...

WASHINGTON -- One in 10 young Americans could not locate his own country on a blank map of the world, a survey of geographic literacy shows. Only 13 percent could find Iraq. "Someone once said that ...