By Cesar O. Gonzalez Tellez
This project is a statistical and geographical analysis of school districts in Massachusetts using the R programming language.
I am interested in Education around the state of Massachusetts. I am concerned that several towns have poor performance compared with their neighbors, sometimes considerably.
I decided to check if the investment per pupil is a significant factor in the performance of the education departments of our towns. Originally, I wanted to use MCAS results compared against expenditure per pupil in Massachusetts. However, the MCAS data was very inconsistent year after year, so I decided to go for a better option. I found that the graduation rate at High School level is more consistent and more reflective of the reality in every school district, so I decided to compare it with the expenditure.
I used the following tools: R programming environment and R Studio IDE.
Attached is a R knitted document created with R Studio with the results and details of the project. [ Word document GPH942FinalCesar ]
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