User:Butternuttree8/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Charter school

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as my group is responsible for research on Charter Schools. Charter schools seem to be a wicked hot topic in contemporary education, so it's important to know what exactly a charter school is.

Evaluate the article
I worked with the "lead" and "content" sections of the evaluation guide.

- Lead: The lead does provide a concise and easily digestible definition of the term. For the most part, I think that the lead paragraph does a good job of laying out the content of the article. I will say that the second sentence in the intro paragraph is a little clunky and hard to understand, but it's not detrimental to the overall introduction.

- Content: I appreciated that the article contained information on several countries in relation to charter school systems. It appears that the most recent statistic reference was published in 2015- so slightly outdated. There was a quote from a 2017 policy statement. I didn't find any specific information on how charter schools have impacted BIPOC+ students/other marginalized students, however, I also didn't get the impression that there hadn't been a ton of academic research/discussion about this as of 2015/17 when the statistics in this article were published.