There are certain truths learned as school children that were considered inviolate. What goes up must come down. Columbus discovered America. There are nine planets circling the sun. A fetal pig’s ...

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 ...

The Peters projection, far from being neutral, was produced for a political purpose: to increase the apparent importance of countries which appear small on a Mercator projection due to ...

There's nothing like a map to help explain the world. But some maps do a better job of it than others. Which is why Boston's public schools have adopted new world maps for some of their classrooms.