You heard a little bit about the idea of combining geography and history in schools here in Tennessee last week… Today we wanted to follow up on that story.
A move to combine geography with history has created tension between state officials and educators.
Geography educators predict that spending less time on the subject will lead to a death of knowledge about geotechnical systems used by the military and businesses for mapping systems. They say the information is necessary for students to be college and career ready when they graduate.
Source:
WMSR