This interactive map, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, allows the user to examine trends in higher education. Users can compare the the percentage of adults with college degree from 1940 to 2009. Users can also look at differences by county or by demographics such as gender or race. One final cool feature is that you can isolate certain types of counties, such as wealthy counties or heavily Hispanic counties. The Census is the primary source of Data.
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The only downside to this one is that users mus have a Chronicle password. Because of that, this would probably work better as an in class demo rather than as a student assignment. This would be a great starting point for a conversation about rising levels of higher education or about stratification by demographics.
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