Would you like a Electrical Engineering and Computer Science education from MIT? Well, you have no excuse for not getting it! The whole curriculum is available for free :)

The free availability of MIT's curriculum--open sourcing their content, so to speak--isn't new. It was officially announced about six years ago. Something reminded me of it today, however, and it's interesting to see how much the initiative has progressed in recent years.

Why don't our public schools do the same thing? Imagine if you could browse the entire local high-school curriculum in an open source environment (even audit it for accuracy!) and use that advantage to prepare your kids for their education, way ahead of the "normal" schedule. This seems like an obvious step in the right direction. So tell your senators! (And tell them to stop using Cold Fusion for their web site while you're at it.)