The prediction was spot on: Rwanda was barreling toward a devastating genocide. It did not emanate from a think tank, but from a high school geography class in western Nebraska. The year was 1993. The teacher? Tim Walz, now the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota governor...
While I was interviewing Walz for the initial column, he told me how the genocide project was one of his proudest moments as an educator, said Mr. Freedman, who is now a journalism professor at Columbia University...
Speaking at the conference last month, held by Esri, a company that makes G.I.S. software widely used in mapping, he said the project had a profound effect on his students and bred some cynicism. How could a bunch of students in western Nebraska, in Alliance, use a computer program and some past historical knowledge to come up with this? he said...
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