Where were the percentages of high school completion highest and lowest? What regions of the country seemed to have the most and least educated residents? What about in 2000? Also, what changed from 1950 to 2000?

Read Choropleth Maps of the Nation

1.Examine Item 1: Completed High School, 1950 Map and Item

2: Completed High School, 2000 Map and record your observations. In 1950, where were the percentages of high school completion highest and lowest? What regions of the country seemed to have the most and least educated residents? What about in 2000? Also, what changed from 1950 to 2000?

The West has the highest percentage of high school graduates, followed closely by the Northeast, the and parts of the Midwest. The South had little to zero concentration of persons with high education.