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This fall Speak Up for Geography, an effort to get funding for geography education, has a goal of sending 10,000 letters to Congress in support of the Act by November 18, 2011. How are efforts like this working to get geography back into schools? Are efforts like a recent Association of American Geographers press release citing former secretaries of state helping? What more can those who work in allied fields do?
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