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In 2007, Cengage Learning sold Peterson's to Nelnet. [23] In 2011, Cengage Learning acquired the National Geographic Society's school publishing unit, and combined this school business with the Global ELT business to create and launch the National Geographic Learning brand. The global brand combined the former Cengage Learning ELT and National ...
In 2017 Big Ideas Learning announced a new partnership with National Geographic Learning (NGL), a Cengage company. National Geographic Learning is the sole distributor of the Big Ideas Math programs. Publications
The 2015 British Council Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Henry Widdowson, is a leading authority in applied linguistics and in communicative language teaching, an approach which stresses the importance of interaction, authentic, natural language, a focus on the learning process, and on the student's personal experiences both inside and ...
A spinoff, National Geographic Explorer, continues to focus on classroom use. [4] In 2007, National Geographic Little Kids began publishing six times a year, aimed at preschoolers 3–6 years of age. [5] In 2015, National Geographic Partners, a joint venture with 21st Century Fox, gained a controlling interest in Kids.
During the 1990s, NCGE worked with the National Geographic Society, the American Association of Geographers, and the American Geographical Society to create national standards for what students at specific educational levels should know about geography by grades 4, 8, and 12. Entitled "Geography for Life" (1994), they include 18 standards that ...
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, [3] sometimes branded as Nat Geo [4]) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. [5] The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine.
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, published its first issue in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded, as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax-exempt National Geographic Society. Starting with the February 1910 (Vol XXI, No. 2) issue, the magazine began using its ...
The term "geo-literacy" arose from the National Geographic Society's "Fight against Geographic Illiteracy." The organization released various media to help explain the concept to the general public. In an editorial, Daniel C. Edelson, vice president for education at National Geographic, said, "The National Geographic Society's concern for geo ...