Children project foresees the creation of multi-media educational programmes in History and Geography of Russia for high school based on the website www.rusnations.ru.

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Silvia Alderoqio, a teacher and writer of schoolbooks on Buenos Aires' history and geography, conducts a tour of the city's centre.

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On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.

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Language, geography and history have combined to isolate Brazil from its Spanish-speaking neighbours on the far side of the Amazon rainforest and the Parana basin, let alone from the wider world.

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She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.

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For example, on April, 2012, the New York Board of Regents formally considered a proposal to eliminate the Regents Examination in Global History and Geography as a graduation requirement precisely because it was the most frequently failed of the five Regents exams.

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