A. Data Set
I think I definitely enjoy education, It has been a part of life and I wish to instill the value I have for it in the genrations to come, espcially within the hispanic community. Thus, I would like to analyze current trends in hispanic population that is graduating, or graduated.
I reallty want to focus on 2008,but aslo analyze my genaration, and within the hispanic population percentages. My son started school in 2009, so it will be interesting to see this percentage and what policy can be developed to empower this population to increase the number by the time my son graduates in 2022, or at least by the next decade. The percentage is really low. Another important set of data is curerent enrollment with young groups of hispanic children. These primary sets will tell me the trends of graduation and what can be done to impact the enrolling classes to help increase graduation. Data set 1 and 2 show enrollement and graduation subsequently.
Most of my data including other sets as I further reserach this will most likely come from the education statistics link we have from Professor Corley, from the National Center of Education Stats: Digest of Education Statistics,this is my third link at bottom.
B. Main point
What I want to analyze is possibly the my genrations trend vs. other race/ethnicity trend to graduate while determing factorsthat lead to succesfull graduation and higher education.
This in turn will allow me to predict trends for teh current generation, following geenration if all stays equal, and what policy inniovation we can create to help create an in crease in graduation, in particualr for the hispanic community.
C. Peer questions
What factors lead to succesful graduation, what factyors lead to pursue higher education? both eliminating race as a concept, and in turn including it?
Where in Arizona do resources exist to aid hispanic, or any race, in graduation completion? Besides school counseling...
How important are socio-economic factors in graduation completion?
why do different races have such different graduation percentage? What really plays into it?
1. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_006.asp
2. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_008.asp
3. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
