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Formative Paper: Data Analysis Paper The KIDS COUNT online data center is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the well-being of children in the United States. Data can be accessed by location or by topics such as demographics, economic well-being, education, family and community, health and safety, and risky behaviors. For this assignment you must: O O • Go to the KIDS COUNT data center (http://datacenter.kidscount.org/) • Choose a data topic Demographics o Economic Well-being o Education Family & Community o Health • Safety & Risky Behaviors Choose your location (Choose a minimum of 2 by state, territory or city) o By State By territory By city • Choose your national indicators • Choose a minimum of four years of data Graph the data three ways (Include the two locations (state, territory or city in one graph) o Line o Pie o Bar O O . The Formative Paper must: 1. Be a minimum of three to four pages (Excluding the title and reference pages and charts and graphs) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 2. Include a minimum of three scholarly references published within the past three years, excluding your textbook. 3. Include a title page with the following: o Title of paper o Student's name o Course name and number o Instructor's name o Date submitted 4. Begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. 5. Address the topic of the paper with critical thought. 6. Include a description of the data found, and the data source. (Summarize the data found, and how it was collected and eventually made available to the data center.) 7. Include your three graphs and analyze which graph is most appropriate for the data and state why. 8. Describe any trends found in the data. 9. Include a minimum of three reasons why the data is similar or different from the two locations or over time. 10. Summarize three articles from a scholarly source (excluding your textbook) that discuss the data you selected. 11. Include a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis. 12. Include all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 13. Include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 14. Full page graphs are not counted as part of the three to four page minimum.
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Outline of High School dropout
Thesis: The number of high school dropout has been falling uniformly in Michigan compared to
Pennsylvania.
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Running Head: School Dropouts

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Running Head: School Dropouts

Abstract
The number of school dropouts continues to drop in Michigan in the past five years. The number
of dropouts is not even in Pennsylvania. The paper will discuss the rate of high school kids’
dropouts. The two states include Michigan and Pennsylvania in a comparative study. The results
will be presented in the bar graph, line graph, and pie chart to enable easy comparison.
The findings over a period have been discussed to get reasons for continued drop in some
dropout cases. An analysis of the difference and similarity between the two states has been
considered. Three articles containing information on the study are also summarized in this paper.
The government efforts and plans to reduce the number of high school dropouts seem to bear
fruits overtime. There is the need for cooperation and coordination between local and national
government in controlling problems facing education sector.

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Cases of School Dropouts between Michigan and Pennsylvania
The event dropout rate is an estimation of both public and private high school basing on the data
from CPS and research conducted in two cities. These are students who joined the first year but
did not afford to earn a school diploma and other alternative credentials for instance GED. The
study is considering the number of youths between 15 through 24 years of age both in Michigan
and Pennsylvania.
The data collected is four years from 2011 to 205....


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