User:AbiL7/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: Educational inequality in the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead is clear and concise and touches on the subheadings of its contents. There can be greater focus on political-economic factors and alternative education systems that have shown success and/or failure in mitigating educational inequality.
 * In terms of content equity, there is a lack of discussion in terms of factors like the still lasting and ongoing effects of residential segregation by de jure practices and little emphasis of the problem of resource allocation in low socioeconomic households in terms of parents having time to raise their children outside of work. The section under the 'Summer learning gap' lacks a discussion on low-income minorities often having to juggle summer jobs to help the household make money and/or take care of younger siblings and elders. Instead it says "these students are not focused on learning during the summer...They are concerned with having fun, and thus forget some of what they gained during the school year". There is also generally a greater emphasis of this problem of education inequality being attributed to a lot of individual choices and solutions with not enough discussion of the socio-political factors heavily involved. The article can benefit from greater discourse surrounding Fraser's framings of "redistribution, recognition, and representation", such as an additional discussion of more relevant modern political actions and attempted solutions.
 * The Talk Page describes that this article is under the WikiProject United States and Education, being of the Start-Class and being rated as High-importance, making it a good article to add to. A lot of suggestions ask to include more citations and sources supporting the statements, addressing facts on incarceration levels and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. There are also suggestions on adding in a new article concerning White Supremacy in the U.S. School Curriculum, which has yet to be published beyond the sandbox. Though some claim that this violates Wikipedia's neutral scholarship POV and it can be one-sided/ this needs more sources to support claims around white supremacy. This is an interesting discussion that finds a lot of historical relevancy that I hope more discourse can reveal. I also noticed there are a lot of topical considerations to add more recent discussion and scholarly sources on social justice movements like BLM. The Talk Page overall is quite active and plenty of improvement is acknowledged.


 * Sources
 * Ginwright, Shawn A. Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers Are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 2016.
 * Giroux, H. A. (2001). Theory and Resistance in Education: Toward a pedagogy for the opposition. Westport, CT. Bergin & Garvey.

Option 2

 * Article title: Educational interventions for first-generation students
 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is clear and conscience though can benefit from having more in-text citations and a line dedicated to defining First-generation college students rather than just in the next sub section. There is a brief outline of the sections to be discussed in the contents. The article itself is quite short and can definitely have more additions and links to larger external articles.
 * The article's contents can improve with an additional section on College Access program non-profits that work with students long-term over many years and this in contrast to private programs and resources. I am familiar with the programs it mentions like GEAR-UP and AVID. There can also be an addition of the history of the need for such programs and the specific challenges facing First-gen students today. There can also be sources for the educational pedagogy of these programs and evidence supporting how effective or ineffective they have been/ are in helping First-gen students.
 * The Talk Page classifies it as a Start-Class article under the WikiProject Education. The last Talk page posts were made in 2018, and there is little to no activity. Definitely has a long way to go and can benefit a lot from these improvements!


 * Sources
 * Ginwright, Shawn A. Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers Are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 2016.
 * Giroux, H. A. (2001). Theory and Resistance in Education: Toward a pedagogy for the opposition. Westport, CT. Bergin & Garvey.
 * https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/struggles-first-generation-college-students-face/
 * The Journey Before Us: First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College - Book by Laura Nichols
 * -more data on effectiveness of these programs
 * Damico, Jennifer J. 2015. "Breaking Down Barriers for Low Income and First Generation College Bound Students: A Case Study of Five College Access Programs." Order No. 3738055, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. https://search.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/breaking-down-barriers-low-income-first/docview/1738865676/se-2?accountid=14496.

Option 3

 * Article title: Philosophy of education
 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is well cited and clear. There is a section to link the philosophy of education to other disciplines, curricular domains, and methods. The contents outline is well organized by the different subsections of the philosophy and the scholars associated with them. Each of the schools of thought have associated thinkers and their contributions to education philosophy with links to their respective main articles. In terms of evaluating equity, there could be more representation of female thinkers/philosophers and people of color that have contributed to the philosophy of education. There are a number of philosophers in East/Southeast Asian histories that have contributed to education philosophy.
 * The Talk Page labels this article as a start-class article of high-importance. There are comments about restructuring the article around educational movements. There are also suggestions to add missing philosophers and improve on sociological perspectives. The talk page has a highly active history, though the last comment was from 2019.


 * Sources
 * Giroux, H. A. (2001). Theory and Resistance in Education: Toward a pedagogy for the opposition. Westport, CT. Bergin & Garvey.
 * Palmer, Parker J. "To know as we are known: Education as a spiritual journey." (1983).
 * Hung, Ruyu. "Cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education." (2017): 1131-1135.

Option 4

 * Article title: Education reform
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has a caution label stating that the article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. The lead section can be more concise and have more incorporated in-text citations. It can improve on structure in terms of laying out what the contents of the article will be rather than touching on some points and scholars that will be described.
 * The article itself seems very U.S. Centric, as some have commented on the Talk Page and there can be improvement on the political-economic discussion of the different types of education institutions globally. There is debate over what is considered a successful education system. Again, the article seems to cover mainly U.S. Education Reform and has significantly less coverage on other countries. It can be restructured to be more inclusive of these global perspectives by having subsections on different countries/regions.


 * Sources
 * Ginwright, Shawn A. Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers Are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 2016.
 * Giroux, H. A. (2001). Theory and Resistance in Education: Toward a pedagogy for the opposition. Westport, CT. Bergin & Garvey.
 * Hallinger, Philip. "Making education reform happen: is there an ‘Asian’way?." School leadership and management 30, no. 5 (2010): 401-418.
 * Sahlberg, Pasi. "Education reform for raising economic competitiveness." Journal of Educational Change 7, no. 4 (2006): 259-287.
 * Verger, Antoni, Clara Fontdevila, and Adrián Zancajo. The privatization of education: A political economy of global education reform. Teachers College Press, 2016.

Option 5

 * Article title: Affirmative action in the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is thorough and provides a lot of in-text citations to support its statements. The structuring of the contents is mainly through chronological policy and legal history and later delves into arguments for and against Affirmative Action. There is also a section on the effectiveness of its implementation how it has been used in universities.
 * The Talk Page does not have a very active or extensive history. In terms of improvement, I think it would be worthwhile to add a section on alternatives in policy. For example, a section on race conscious policies in higher education as described by thinktanks and policy memos. It would also be helpful to have external links to articles such as Education Reform, U.S. Education Reform, First-Generation Students, etc.


 * Sources
 * Fischer, Mary J., and Douglas S. Massey. "The effects of affirmative action in higher education." Social Science Research 36, no. 2 (2007): 531-549.
 * Ibarra, Robert A. Beyond affirmative action: Reframing the context of higher education. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
 * Howell, Jessica S. "Assessing the impact of eliminating affirmative action in higher education." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 1 (2010): 113-166.
 * Verger, Antoni, Clara Fontdevila, and Adrián Zancajo. The privatization of education: A political economy of global education reform. Teachers College Press, 2016.
 * Jones, Tiffany, and Andrew Nichols. "Hard truths: Why only race-conscious policies can fix racism in higher education." (2020).