Picture a wall-size world map. What do you see? What you are imagining is most likely not the type of map going into Boston Public Schools Thursday. Social studies teachers in the second, seventh and ...

Visualize the world map. You’re probably imagining the Mercator projection, the standard used across American schools. Unfortunately, that map is wrong: It’s a variation of Gerardus Mercator’s design ...

AMHERST — Classrooms in Boston’s public schools will soon be using world maps that show land masses of correct size, supplementing what school officials view as traditional, Eurocentric centuries-old ...

This post originally appeared on Global Citizen. In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — ...

Around 600 classrooms in Boston are set to ditch the widely used but highly distorted traditional map of the world in favour of a more accurate depiction of the globe. Schools will use the Gall-Peters ...

Students attending Boston public schools will get a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard map of the world that show North America and Europe much ...