Geography may not be particularly known as a hot topic among today’s students—even some advocates suggest it suffers from an image problem—but by at least one measure, the subject is starting to come ...

Long belittled for their ignorance of foreign cultures—not to mention an inability to locate well-known countries on world maps—an increasing number of U.S. high school students are taking courses ...

Social studies teacher Elías Valverde talks to students in his ninth-grade pre-AP world geography class at Paschal High School in Fort Worth." Elías Valverde, a social studies teacher at Fort Worth's ...