Abstract
(The following comments by Lee Schwarz appeared in The Washington Post on Dec. 29,1987. Lee Schwarz is an assistant professor at the School of International Service, The American University, Washington, D.C.). The U.S. is Losing Ground on Geographic Awareness WASHINGTON-One of the less-publicized acts of the recently departed Congress was to pass a bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., proclaiming a "National Geography Awareness Week." It was a symbolic action, to be sure, but one that should not be trivialized in view of the alrarming degree of geographical illiteracy in the United States today. A few examples will suffice. In a recent survey of the University of Miami, 30 percent of the students could not locate the Pacific Ocean on a world map.
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Raphael, C. Nicholas
(1988)
"Editor's Comments,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 30:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
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