Who says crime doesn’t pay? In the newest installment of the “Carmen Sandiego” series, it pays off in a big way by teaching kids geography skills. National Geographic also is diving deeper into the ...

The article “Spatial research is altering the shape of early learning” (Page 1, Dec. 25) nicely summarized some recent work by several psychologists and other educators who have found that spatial ...

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 ...

Children are being let down by boring geography lessons which fail to teach them about vital global issues such as climate change, according to a damning report by the education watchdog Ofsted. The ...

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 ...