CNN is broadcasting the rsults of this National Geographic survey showing that many young people in various countries (especially the U.S.) fail a simple test where they are required to locate entities such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Pacific Ocean on a map. The National Geographic Society is an interested party, of course, and it would be interesting to see the actual test. That said, the gap bewteen American students and those in other countries is probably even wider than the test suggests, since the questions were America-centric (requiring that students locate specific U.S. states). Imagine what the results would look like were both the Americans and, say, the Germans required also to locate Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg.
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