The Revival of Geography in U.S. Schools

Abstract

In an age of new global realities, America's policy and business leaders recognize that geography is critica1 to the nation's future, not least its international competitiveness. Professional geographers have seized this opportunity to get geography back into the schools. As a result of a series of reform efforts and in particular the success of a grass roots state alliance geography program, the study of geography in schools is on the increase. Geography's comeback is likely to be sustained in the 1990s because it is one of five disciplines specified by the 1989 National Goals for Education for competency in grades four, eight, and twelve by the year 2000.