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Reflection Paragrah on Sources

Throughout my whole research I had some ups and downs when trying to find good and useful sources to put in my blog so that it could be viewed as an educated blog. Even though I did not understand how to find sources that were really helpful at the time,I still found some websites after understanding how to tell if a source was useful are not. Some of the sites that I found were fitsnews.com, Oregonlive.com, edweek.org, standard.net, and familyeducation.com. The two sources that were most useful during my research were fitnews.com and edweek.org. These sources were helpful because it provided me with a lot of information that was relative to my topic.  Also these two sources provided shocking and interesting facts that made you go in the changelleing state of mind. The sources that were trustworthy during my research were Oregonlive.com and standared.net. They were trustworthy because they did not state their opinion in these sources.  They stated facts and statistics about education. Also, this source states information about previous years and how the dropout rate shows the incline. The source that displayed obvious bias was familyeducation.com.  This source displayed obvious bias because it was a story about a women's son who had found school to be frustrating and pointless. Out of all of these sources, all of them brought good and veiled information to my page. I hope someone take the time to view my blog so they can see all the hard work I put into it and see just how important my topic is on students education.

Reflection Paragraph on Process

Research, when I first heard this word the first thing that came to my mind was I am going to fail because research is just frustrating, but with the help of the guide was were giving I found this research to be interesting and fun. This research was fun because we got to pick our own topic. It was not a topic that someone has given us we simply picked it ourselves and did research on it. The things that were difficult during this research were when I had to find useful sources and when I had to cite them. I never had to find sources or cite information before so it took me time to understand how to these concepts. Once I got the hang of it though this situation came very clear to me and it did not felt formable anymore. The things that were easy during this research were posting things, paraphrasing quotes and making and posting important information on our blogs, so that they would stand out and grab people’s attention. These things were easy because the instructions on how to do these types of things were on my teacher’s page and the only thing we had to do was follow directions. I enjoyed everything about this research, this research gave me a chance to learn and explore different things that I can apply in my future. This whole journey was bittersweet, but for the most part it was worth my time. It taught me things that I was interested in learning. If I had a chance to do this project over again the one thing that I would do differently is research one thing at a time instead of jumping all over the place. It seemed that I would always start something without finishing just so that I could start something else. I really loved all the experiences that I had with my research I learned a lot and I hope people can take a lot from my page when they view it.

Reflection Paragraph on Findings

Searching for different types of information throughout my speech was frustrating at time , but was worth the effort that I put in to it. This was my first real research that I did by myself and I am very proud of how my work has turned out. My work that I had put a lot of robust energy into looks and feel successful to me. At the first beginning of my research I did not know what to do are how to get started so that my research could catch people’s attention ,but with the help of the research guide I was given, I managed my way through with outstanding progress. Throughout my research I have found a variety of important facts concerning my topic. Some important facts that I learned about my topic is that only forty five percent of African American students and thirty nine percent of Hispanics in south Carolina graduate on time according to the high school dropout rate report. Not only these specific races, but other races dropout because of some many reasons. The main reason is because they are not motivated and have no one to push them for an better education. They have no goals sought for their selves in life and find the work at school to be pointless to them and because of this only fifty five percent of south Carolina high school students graduate on time. this means that every student will not graduate with their appropriate class. Another important fact that I learned is that South Carolina has the highest dropout rate and it continues to climb for the worse, we rank dead last in the country. The most surprising thing that I have learned is that when you say you are ready for college you are not really academically prepared for the course work that is given, according to the study of the U.S. Department of Education. Another thing that was surprising that I learned according to research was that thirty percent of first year students at a four year university and forty two percent of students at a community college must take at least one remedial class, and only seventeen percent of students who take even one remedial reading class at college are likely to get their bachelor’s degree. After all this research finding that I have done it still leaves me with one question. Will majority of teenagers ever get serious about their education and will the teenage dropout rate ever change for the better? I feel that my topic is a start to many opportunities and a attention grabber, but people need to pay more attention and brainstorm more ideas for teens to have a superb future.

Finding Of Paragrah#2

When you graduate from high school most people think that’s it. A high school diploma that is just a start with your life and options, you should want to better yourself for a better education and a brighter future.  How do most teens in the United States apply their education further for a better future? Some teens get a part time job to help out around the house with their parent’s bills, but some get their money and go crazy with it by spending it and not balancing their selves. Some teens apply for college, most entering into the medical field or financial business. They do this, so that they can make a better future for their self rather than just settling for a high school diploma. They know that there is a better future out there for them and the more education they have the better chance there is for you to succeed.  “Once we hit college, we'll no doubt hit some surprises when new responsibilities are handed to us and our entire future is that much more relevant to what we decide at the moment.” This quote was stated by Dallin Abendroth.

Finding Paragragh#1

“South Carolina’s overall graduation rate remains among the worst in the nation – which is consistent with our state’s declining SAT and ACT scores.  Also, South Carolina’s rural graduation rate ranks dead last in the country.” This quote was stated by fits news.  Trying to get an education sometimes may be hard when you have no help are anyone to depend on. An education may even become frustrating at times because you have no idea on how to do the work that have been given to you. You may get inpatient and want to give up because you feel like your just not understanding the concept. A question you may ask yourself is how many students drop out of high school per year. You may ask yourself this question because you feel that learning and getting an education is just too hard and it makes you want to just give up at times.  That was one of my search questions that I had researched, researched showed that just fifty five percent of South Carolina students graduate on time, which is the third lowest rate in the in the nation. This rate is well below the national average of sixty nine percent.  This means that all the people you started out with in your class will not graduate. They will even have dropout by their senior year or fail their grade due conflicts they do not understand and problems in our out of school. Also researched said that diplomas rates are decreasing badly.