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Some US schools have adopted a new world map
The Boston school system is the first to scrap Mercator Projections and adopt a map that has been drawn using the Gall-Peters projection instead. Hayden Frederick-Clarke, a school administrator, says this new map is more accurate, and for many students, it鈥檚 also affirming.
(Image: Marco Werman points to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he used to live. Credit: Lidia Jean Kott)
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