User:Empen004/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

 * "Educational attainment in the United States"
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, charts and maps also included and sourced.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, most sources are recent; 2021 and recent.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes; this article talks about the disparities in the education system for African American citizens as well as other minorities.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * Sources:
 * Educational Attainment in the United States: 2003, U.S. Census Bureau
 * The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings, U.S. Census Bureau
 * Map: Graduation Rate by State, Student Group, Education Week
 * Map: Graduation Rate by State, Student Group, Education Week

Option 2

 * "History of African-American education"
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, charts and tables are also included
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, most sources are recent and there are many that are written by reliable sources
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes; this article talks about the history of African American education, explaining how disparities have become problematic.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * Sources
 * Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior. Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States, Volume II. (Bulletin, 1916, No. 39, 1917) online
 * Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior. Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States, Volume II. (Bulletin, 1916, No. 39, 1917) online

Option 3

 * "Race and health in the United States"
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, every claim is cited and the chart that is referenced is embedded in the page
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, most sources are recent and there are 205 different sources included.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes; this article talks about African American citizens in the health care system. They face higher mortality rates and underrepresentation.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * Sources (there are over 200 sources):
 * Sources (there are over 200 sources):

Option 4

 * "Washington Assessment of Student Learning"
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, sources are recent and up to date.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes; this article evaluates the education systems in the United States. Specifically, the article mentions standardized testing and the classes that are offered to students.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * Sources and external links:
 * Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - Washington State Report Card (WASL scores)
 * Washington Education Association WEA
 * CURE of Washington state (Citizens United for Responsible Education)
 * Mothers Against WASL (MAW)
 * Mothers Against WASL (MAW)

Option 5

 * "African-American Vernacular English and education"
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, sources are recent and up to date. There are also over one hundred different reliable sources.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes; this article talks about vernacular dialect that is present in the United States education system. It tackles the misconceptions and context of this language.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
 * Sources
 * Center for Applied Linguistics. "Dialects: African American Vernacular English". Links to "a variety of resources related to African American Vernacular English", a lot of them hosted by the Center, many directly related to this controversy.
 * Rich, Frank. "The Ebonic Plague". The New York Times, 8 January 1997.
 * Rich, Frank. "The Ebonic Plague". The New York Times, 8 January 1997.

Option 6:
"Educational Inequality"

Good source, credible, sections understandably organized and relevant. Could consider adding more context to the race section.

ALSO there are many places where an editor included questions asking for more information and elaborating existing data. Another option this same editor requests is a proper citation some claims..