Online Graphics-Assignment write up

Today, I was finally able to download the second assignment with graphics. I had problems with downloading the infomation as I had save the graphs as documents instead of jpg files. Once I realized this, I then was able to download the graphs and complete the assignment. We had to access the Kid Zone chart construction page: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/ and create a chart that shows the number of students with an IEP (Individualized Education Programs) in the poorest states. This was based on the per capita personal income per state information from the year 2006 accessed at this website: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html. These states were Mississippi, West Virginia, Utah and Arkansas (ranging from the poorest state to not as poor). The additional information was found through the NAEP at this website: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/. Under each state is listed the percentage of students with IEP. The chart portrays that West Virginia had the second lowest percentage of students with IEP than the other two poor states, but this may reveal that West Virginia has a smaller population and therefore a smaller number of students enrolled. The second chart reveals that West Virginia's avereage scores in Math have not been growing as quickly as the National average in Math.