Compare two different public high schools that serve different socioeconomic communities to determine whether the schools you have chosen support the research described in the readings for the second sequence or call it into question. I want you to conduct demographic research about the community served by each school. In addition, I want you to look closely at the schools to see how they compare with the state and with each other. I would like you to structure your paper as an empirical study as it is described in the APA manual including the following sections:
1) Introduction- In this section I want you to describe the problem described in the readings. Develop this section with numbers, quotes, and examples from the required readings. Your description of the problem should lead to a statement about the purpose of your investigation.
2) Method- In this section I want you do describe how you conducted you investigation. Identify the demographic measures that you compared in the communities as well as the academic measures you used in the evaluation of the schools. This is not the section to present what you found, only what you we are looking for.
3) Results- In this section I want you to present the data you gathered about the demographics of the communities and the academic performance of the schools.
4) Discussion- In this section I want you to relate what you found to the problem described in the first section. Do your findings support what we saw in the readings or call it into question?
I would also like you to include a brief abstract before the Introduction. The abstract should briefly describe the information included in each section.