My first book, “Geography Is Dead: How America Lost Its Sense of Direction” (2012), highlighted several important factors behind our collective disconnection with geography.

For students who may work full-time, for example, as the report found more than half (54%) of online students do, those flexibilities are likely to be essential to whether they can go to school at ...

Geography literally means 'writing about the Earth'. It is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Geography can be split into three areas: human geography ...

The Massachusetts standards, for example, have a “geography” page for each world region, which consists primarily of a list of place names to be memorized “to support the teaching of a ...

What is geography? It is a simple yet misleading question. Literally, it is derived from the Greek words "Geo" (Earth) and "graphy" (to write). Many people would probably answer that question with ...

The class title, "The Geography of Terrorism,” had many students at hello, said Calvin professor of geology and geography Jason VanHorn. “I think the title alone caught a lot of students’ attention,” ...

More recently, Gibson covered Astoria and why it never became a major hub like San Francisco. We learn more about “Geography by Geoff” and how it struck a chord on social media. Note: The ...

What do you learn in a geography degree? Modules may include topics on rivers, sustainability, environmental modelling, the physical environment, the politics of climate change, the making of the ...

Geography majors may learn to work with GIS. These specialized computer systems are used to describe spaces and compare data points – an increasingly important task in today’s world of digital ...

What Geography Can Teach Us About Basketball. By David Haglund. March 06, 2012 11:49 AM. A color-coded map of all shots taken in the NBA from 2006-2011.

"ABCs of Geography" by Chris Ferrie and Adam Mathews was released Nov. 1, 2022. Mathews went back to basics with the release of his debut book, "ABCs of Geography," as part of Chris Ferrie's Baby ...