Brandeis University

The Maps We Use

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...
KQED

Students See A New World With More Accurate Maps

Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time. Beginning last Thursday, Boston Public Schools administrators have ...
Brandeis University

The Maps We Use

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...
WBUR

Arriving At Boston Public Schools: More Accurate — And Inclusive — World Maps

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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

The map you learned in school is wrong; Boston students will be taught a new one

Our world does not look like the map on the wall of the classrooms you grew up in.In order to flatten the spherical globe onto a flat map, cartographers had to make adjustments to the sizes of the ...
Tucson Weekly

We Look Smaller in Boston

Students attending a Boston public school have another world map, the Peters projection map, next to the one most of us are used to looking at. Boston’s public schools began phasing in the ...