I love maps!

Especially interesting ones with a lot of information. Click the image to follow through to an interactive map of the US showing college degrees by county. The interesting part, I think, is the spatial difference of races as well. You can see where there are large numbers of hispanics and blacks based on the percentage changes, and it is also interesting to see which counties have high concentrations of college graduates in general. Take a look for yourself and see what kind of education is around the country.

In a related note, here is an article about Khan Academy possibly closing the education gap in America. Khan Academy is a YouTube based collection of videos teaching any number of basic subjects (and into advanced in some cases).  Bill Gates even supports the idea. It was started by a guy asked to tutor his nephews, but when their schedules didn't match he compiled videos to help them, and uploaded them to the web, from there the idea took off and he has since uploaded hundreds of different lessons. I haven't tried to learn anything from there, but I hear it's a good place to start if you're trying to learn something new!

A side note, I took the picture with Windows "snipping tool" it's a partial print screen feature, pretty neat!

R