Improve Education: Map Alert


	Improve Education: Map Alert

akipta

8-22-2008 12:34 AM

139 views

tags:

maps mapping education

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

View the Top Clips from August 22, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2701614c-24d1-4ea1-a7bc-b2d5eb4c41fc/895B65E1-A7E8-4663-B265-17ABFDF9DFBA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://improve-education.org/id16.html" href="http://improve-education.org/id16.html" style="font-size: 11px;">improve-education.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improve-education.org/id16.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/improve-education.org/img/A3DEF524-0F40-4E11-82F4-68A9F1CF7925" alt="12mapp.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improve-education.org/id16.html">Recent surveys showed that Americans 18-24 don’t,
            in huge numbers, know where California is, or Louisiana, or Iraq, or much of anything. About one-third are totally illiterate,
            geographically speaking; half are nearly as bad. The problem is that our educators (I mean the top people who shape the system)
            can find many theoretical reasons for teaching less…but few compelling reasons for teaching more. As you could predict,
            they scorn maps. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improve-education.org/id16.html"><DIV>
            Want to dumb down a country? Easy. Do not point to maps. Do not have them in the schools. Never mention maps. Instead, encourage
            students to think of the world as vast, vague, mushy and unknowable.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improve-education.org/id16.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/improve-education.org/img/1B284A64-851E-4F07-8EC9-E4E04520CD22" alt="MARKSMAPS.jpg" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/895B65E1-A7E8-4663-B265-17ABFDF9DFBA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from akipta

Today's Top Clips