The Committee Reports

The partner organizations selected three blue-ribbon committees to create the Road Map reports that will guide K-12 educational reform in both physical and human geography. The committees solicited input from experts and the public, conduct systematic surveys of the relevant research literature, and synthesized the results into the final reports.

The Assessment Committee developed a framework for assessing progress toward geographic literacy from kindergarten through high school.

The Instructional Materials and Professional Development Committee makes recommendations about the design of instructional materials and the education of teachers.

The Geography Educational Research Committee developed an agenda for educational research that lays out questions about learning, teaching, and educational change that must be answered to maintain the effectiveness of geography education into the future.

As an integral part of this project, the American Geographical Society conducted a nationwide Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey. Geographers throughout the country solicited respondents to collect baseline data for measuring national progress in geographic literacy over the coming years.

Each report can be downloaded below.