Before students learn more advanced subjects, such as history or economics, it's important to have a solid mastery of geography. In the United States, 73 percent of eighth grade students performed ...

Dear Heloise: You had a letter from a woman who complained that geography isn’t being taught in schools nowadays. It is a subject that has always interested me, and I was lucky to study it in school.

Turkish and Greek are the official languages of an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. Name this country. Cyprus. Name the cold ocean current that meets the warmer Gulf Stream along the East ...