Lost your password?

Blogs about: Geography Political

Featured Blog

Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21

Ed Darrell wrote 2 weeks ago: Geography Awareness week is sneaking up — November 15-21. Got your special lesson plans ready, … more →

Tags: Education, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, lesson plans, Geography, Geography Awareness Week

Where did North Dakota go?7 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: I think it was during the Los Angeles Olympics that I read a story about a guy in Albuquerque, New M … more →

Tags: Education, Geography - Physical, Humor, Travel, Geography

48 years ago today, in Berlin2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Soviet-bloc communism disabused us of a lot of ideas, including pointing out that when the amplifica … more →

Tags: Cold War, communism, Travel, Berlin Wall, Geography, Germany, World History

Bad guys of Baltimore1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Or, “How a little study of history can make your visit to a city so much more entertaining and … more →

Tags: Travel, Business, business ethics, Geography - Physical, History, History and art, History images, Life, Slavery

Geographical lottery: Gambling with health care1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Is it true that kids can’t get insured in Texas if their parents have two vehicles?  I mean, t … more →

Tags: Geography - Physical, Politics, Public Health, Government, Health Care, Medicine, legislation, Geography, Children

India today, in photos2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Geography teachers, get out your PowerPoints and Keynotes. Photo of life in Delhi, India. From a col … more →

Tags: Travel, Geography - Physical, Geography - Economic, Art, Images, poverty, India, Photography, Urbanization

Trouble at the Texas State Board of Education: Social studies curriculum

Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: I’m posting on the run from an AP Summer Institute at Texas Christian University, so just the … more →

Tags: Economics, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, History, Politics, Social Studies, Texas, Texas History, War on Education

Insanity at Texas state school board - economics, geography and history

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Texas Freedom Network’s Insider blog reports that embattled chairman Don McLeroy is working to … more →

Tags: accuracy, Bogus history, Curricula, Economics, Education, Education assessment, Education quality, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical

What if we changed the climate and no one paid attention?9 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Rush Limbaugh, Pete DuPont, Michael Savage, the Discovery Institute and other great exponents of rea … more →

Tags: climate change, Denialism, Environmental Protection, Geography - Physical, Global Warming, History, Journalism, Politics, Pollution

Missed anniversary: Naming of Americas

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Waldseemueller's 1507 map that named the America's. Library of Congress image. Click on the … more →

Tags: cartography, Explorers and Exploration, Geography - Physical, History, History and art, lesson plans, Maps, America Vespucci, Americas

Texas Citizens for Science supports stripping powers from state board

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Another press release, FYI.  I’ve added some links in for your convenience.  Remember, teacher … more →

Tags: Curricula, Economics, Education, Education quality, Evolution, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, History, Science

Social studies on the 'net

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: A note from one of our school’s librarians: Here are some web sites for Social Studies teacher … more →

Tags: Economics, Geography - Economic, Geography - Physical, History, Weblogs

Fidel, on Sen. Lugar's Cuba proposal

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Heck, while we’re looking at Cuba, take a read of Fidel Castro’s comments on Sen. Richar … more →

Tags: Geography - Physical, History, Politics, Foreign Affairs, Geography, Foreign relations, cuba, embargo, castro

Cuba treats Chernobyl victims1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a very odd news item.  It’s odd because, first, the disaster at Chernobyl is wide … more →

Tags: Science, Geography - Physical, History, Disasters, Health Care, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Geography, disaster

Alaska volcano blows smoke on Bobby Jindal1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: Joni Mitchell sang it, she’d seen “some hot, hot blazes come down to smoke and ash. … more →

Tags: Disasters, Geography - Physical, Geology, Politics, Science, Volcanoes, Bobby Jindal, Geography

California unemployment map, for economics classrooms

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: The Sacramento Bee, one of America’s great newspapers which we hope can stay in business throu … more →

Tags: Economics, technology, Geography - Physical, Maps, Newspapers, classroom technology, Technology in the Classroom, Geography - Economic, Internet

Encore post: Feynman and the inconceivable nature of nature2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: [This is an Encore Post, from August 2007 -- just as it appeared then.  See especially the links on … more →

Tags: cargo cults, Education, Feynman, Geography - Physical, Heroes, History, History video sources, Manhattan Project, Physics

Millard Fillmore and March 8: Hurrah! and R.I.P.3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: The Black Ships -- Commodore Matthew C. Perry's squadron in Japan, 1854 - CSSVirginia.org image … more →

Tags: Foreign Affairs, Geography - Physical, History, History and art, History images, History museums, Japan, Millard Fillmore, Transportation

Bobby Jindal: Dumb about rocks7 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: I couldn’t believe it either. Remember all the flap about a flurry of earthquakes in the Yello … more →

Tags: Geography - Physical, Geology, junk science, Politics, Research, Science, Voodoo science, War on Science, Bobby Jindal


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS