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自60年代中期以来,美国中小学的地理课并入了综合性社会学科。该学科内容包括历史、地理、政治、经济、法律、心理学、社会学和人类学。科目如此繁多,致使许多教师顾此失彼,甚至以自己的喜好来增减讲授内容。许多学区的小学往往在快下课时或在阅读课、数学课后才向学生讲一点地理知识。学生升入初中或高中后,有的根本不学地理,结果,许多学生看不懂地图,不能标出自己国家的地理位置。据美国全国地理学教育协会最近调查:南达科他州布鲁金地区
Geography classes in primary and secondary schools in the United States have been integrated into comprehensive social sciences since the mid-1960s. The subject includes history, geography, politics, economics, law, psychology, sociology and anthropology. So many subjects, resulting in many teachers to defeat one another, and even to their own preferences to change the content. Many district primary schools tend to tell students a little geography knowledge soon after class or after reading classes and math classes. After students enter junior high school or high school, some do not learn geography at all. As a result, many students can not read the map and can not identify the geographical location of their country. According to a recent survey by the National Geographic Education Association of America: Brougham, South Dakota