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An Appalling Ignorance of the World: The Price of Affluence?
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Wise, John H. – 1975
Today's students in the Western world show a widespread lack of basic world knowledge. Geography graduates in a Canadian and an Australian university were asked to locate 75 major cities in the world. The results indicated a wide knowledge of cities in the Western world but little knowledge of cities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Only…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education