SINGAPORE: It had been 15 years since I was in secondary school, but I could still feel that familiar feeling of dread as the teacher scanned the class for someone to answer his question. Mr Andrea ...

In a damning report, Ofsted said teaching in the subject was not good enough in more than half of English state schools. Geography – traditionally a cornerstone of the curriculum – is often undermined ...

On day four, Jeannie Zetterstrand, a first-year math teacher at the Alternative School of Tillson, said she was discovering new ways to integrate geography and math to make it fun for children to ...

The first series of BBC Bitesize online geography lessons taught by Sir David Attenborough are now available online. This week’s topics, in animated videos narrated by Attenborough, include continents ...

It wasn’t until Sep. 11, 2001 that I realized my hometown was only 12 miles from New York City. They were 12 very long miles though, clogged with traffic and striated with densely packed layers of the ...

When looking for wisdom, we often turn to witty writers like Oscar Wilde or sage leaders like Nelson Mandela. That said, there are plenty of less famous people with valuable life lessons to share.

Install a large world map at the front of the classroom where all the students can see it. A class set of atlases and of the Activity Sheet: Flight and Asylum are also required. In this lesson, the ...

Vladimir Putin may need to take remedial lessons in cartography and geography. On May 23, Valery Zorkin, the head of Russia’s Constitutional Court, showed the Russian leader a copy of a map from the ...

In the era of mass and social media, when the general public suddenly becomes familiar with a country's geography, it's rarely good news for the country. Au contraire, this usually means something bad ...