Census Data

In the passage the author Dana Gioia argues and states that the literacy rate here in the United States is dropping very fast. The author claims that “the interest young Americans showed in the arts and especially literature actually diminished. Gioia is stating that many young Americans throughout the United States are not reading and that is making the literacy rate to decrease. Making our literature status go down. Gioia gives us examples of this by stating some facts and looking back at a survey.

As a nontraditional student, I found the article “Mapping the Misunderstood Population of Adult Students”, (Ashburn, E. 2007) to be a close representation of myself as an adult student. Financial aid is one of many areas that seems to fall short for the adult learner. The decision to return to school is different from that of a traditional student. As a forty-eight year old woman with a productive career, still raising a family, and many social obligations, going to college was a decision that would affect all of these

A superintendent wants to do a study on poverty level versus student achievement levels in elementary students. His district has 18 elementary schools. He randomly chooses 6 of those schools, then includes all students from these 6 schools in his study. Ans. Convenience Sampling

The type of school can also have an effect on the outcomes and having the economic means to afford a better educational institution can make a difference, which most dysfunctional families struggle

Time and cost are also factors that need to be taken into account. The precision will be higher and the sample error will be smaller from a sample of 5 to a sample of 1000, however after about 1000, the differences in precision and sampling error become less noticeable. Another factor is the amount of people who will be non-responsive. When you think about the size of the sample, you have to think about the number of people who will not respond to make sure that the number that does respond is still large enough to be significant. You need to also think about the heterogeneity of the population; are the people of the sample more the same or more different.

Another problem is if you are doing a telephone survey or something related, the customer might not have time to answer the questions and may possibly give false information or might not be happy with the amount of questions being asked and the questionnaire most likely will not be

The study focuses on children coming from either the Lower Richmond School or Swan School. Lower Richmond School is an urban city elementary school, mainly attended by poor or working-class children. While many parents have positive views of this school, they are constantly low on supplies and even teachers, with the lower salaries than suburban schools leading to classes often being run by substitutes. This makes it harder for these children to get the education they need. Swan School, located in the suburbs, is mainly attended by middle-class children.

Poor, urban, and rural students will most likely lack resources resulting in inequality from the wealthy students. Many high schools now require students to have a computer at home to check their daily assignments, grades, and peer reviews. With families under the poverty line, making roughly $23,000 a year, it would be difficult for them to decide if their child should get a computer or should the money go toward food. Low income students lacking technology at home would constantly miss assignments and important notification from teachers. It would also be difficult for students

The sample selection procedures ensure that every household within New York State has an equal chance to be included in the survey. The sample cause the overall ESP results to vary by more than 3.5 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all New York state residents were interviewed. Some issues of the data is some questions (variables of dataset) of the questionnaire are not quantitative and the data has amount of missing data. C. How did you choose the methodology for the problem?

• The percentage of the sample who participated in the study appeared to be a threat. Out of the 372 questionnaires sent out only 175 were usable. This was not fifty percent of the sample and could have caused a response bias. Results Section Discuss the statistical analysis or manipulation as

The official poverty rate is 13.5 percent based on the U.S Census Bureau’s 2015 estimates, that same year an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty. (U.S Census Bureau) There are millions of Americans that go unnoticed to society and government due to their low financial stability and poor living situations. They constantly deal with low provisions, low employment, bad health, and high rates of poverty. Majority of this happens to the minorities in this country, and it dates back since the 1900’s. The minorities being the last to be concerned about, but since then low income communities have been generified, which has improved the living conditions bring in more people, jobs, and better housing, but it still takes years for the

The specific minority group I have chosen is Hispanic. Hispanic or Latino Populations are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a minority group to include Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American or other Spanish culture regardless of race. This description can be found in the article written by the (CDC) Center for Disease Control and Prevention called Minority Health. The Mexican minority group makes up 64% of the Hispanic population. This is interesting to me because I live is Southern California where this population is greatly represented.

According to Dr. Mackin, this is the popular approach in the sociological world. The other approach is the “within schools” approach. The “within school” approach is just basically saying that children who grow up in a poor neighborhood/poor environment, will not get a good education to succeed and climb the ladder of economic wealth. Sociologist

In the working class schools, the student’s attitudes reflected what the teachers felt about their job. The teachers lacked passion for their job and did not want to be there anymore than the students. The principal not knowing the history of the school plays a role on why the school was poorly maintained. The middle class school had more parents involved than working class school. This can be the result of the parents socioeconomic status since middle class parents have better paying jobs allowing them more participation in their child’s school.

I resolutely support the notion that the contents of one's early childhood education have a significant bearing on their success in future educations, including secondary and post-secondary education. Accordingly, I have a keen interest in understanding what specific institutions -- both intra-academics, e.g. school funding, extracurriculars, etc. and inter-academics, e.g. family as an institution in and of itself -- affect the overall early childhood education, and its consequent implications. The interdisciplinary discourse of early childhood studies in conjunction with economics, -- the latter being my field of study-- specifically the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative indicators of "economic standing" plays a significant role