As your instructor directs,

a. Identify at least five stories in one or more of the following data sets.

b. Create visuals or data displays for three of the stories.

c. Write an e-mail to your instructor explaining why you chose these stories and why you chose these visuals or data displays to display them.

d. Write an e-mail to some group that might be interested in your findings, presenting your visuals or data displays as part of a short report. Possible groups include career counselors, radio stations, advertising agencies, and local school boards.

e. Brainstorm additional stories you could tell with additional data. Specify the kind of data you would need.

Statistics on high school graduates:
1. Curriculum levels completed

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Rigorous Midlevel Standard Below Standard Percent Below Standard g 80 Percent At or Above Standard 40 40 20 60 80 60 60 100 40* 51* 56* 59* 68* PERCENT AT OR ABOVE STANDARD 75 10* 13 10 6* 9* 5* 26* C ||||||||||||||||||||| 33 34 12 13 44 49* 20 60 100 '90 '94 IIIIIIII '98 '00 36* 13 47 46 71 17 16 32* 41 '05 '09 25 25 *Significantly different from 2009. High School Graduation Year Source: C. Nord, S. Roey, R. Perkins, M. Lyons, N. Lemanski, J. Brown, and J. Schuknecht, The Nation's Report Card: America's High School Graduates (NCES 2011-462), U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011), 8, Figure 2.