National Council for Geographic Education

The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) is a non-profit scientific and educational society, chartered in 1915 to enhance the status and quality of geography teaching and learning. NCGE supports geography education at all levels— through formal and informal education, in primary education, secondary education, community college, and university settings. NCGE promotes and supports geography teaching, enhances the preparation of geography education with respect to knowledge of content, techniques, and learning processes, facilitates communication and professional development among teachers of geography, encourages and supports research on geography education, develops, publishes, and promotes the use of exemplary curricular resources and other learning materials, recognizes exceptional instructors of geography, and collaborates with other organizations that have similar goals.