Posted on 06/21/2002 11:37:36 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Many American students have improved their knowledge of geography, but one in three fourth-graders still can't identify his or her home state on a map, according to a federal government report released yesterday.
Since 1994 the knowledge of U.S. students about the world has improved, the federal government said in its 2001 national geography "report card."
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