User:Jennanand/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
1) Refugee children

2) Newcomer education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Refugee Children: I decided to choose this article, because my PE Organization, Oakland International High School works with refugee children to provide them educational opportunities in America. Specifically, I enjoyed looked at the refugee education portion as it includes sections like the structure of the education system, structure of classes, language barriers and ethnicity, and role of teachers which is heavily prevalent in my research for Oakland International High School.

Newcomer Education: I chose this article because the article gives me information on the education policies and backgrounds for newly arrived refugees and immigrants in the United States. At Oakland International, a lot of the work I do is in the classroom and attending to the student's educational needs. This article is informative for me because it gives me greater insight onto the broader context and policies for refugee education in historical and political sense.

Evaluate the article
Refugee Children Evaluation: The article first starts with the lead sentence which introduces the different topics that the article will be discussing like legal protections, health, and education. Also, the lead sentence does a good job of introducing the historical background of refugees and their needs within society. Throughout this article and with each topic discussed which is organized by section, there are numerous citations within each paragraph that are reliably sourced as their external links do work. The citations do not seem to have any sort of bias when conveying the information and seems to remain neutral when discussing information throughout the text. Also, within each heading there are subheadings which provide more information on the topic being discussed. For example, under education there is a paragraph giving the background information on the issue then goes into a multiple subheadings like, structure of the education system, structure of classes, and language barriers and ethnicity. This is good because it helps the organizational structure of the article and it is easier for people to find the information they are looking for. Also, it makes the information easier to read and retain since it is very brief paragraphs. Also, the structure of the table of contents helps find information a lot easier on this article. In the talks page, I thought it was interesting as someone suggested moving all of the information in the education portion to a new Wiki page called Refugee Education. I do agree with the Talk Page suggestion and believe that a lot of this information can be transferred into their own Wikipedia page that addresses each issue. However, one aspect of this article that did stick out to me is that with the amount of information present, there are not many visuals. I feel like adding more photos will attract the attention of more readers. This article seems very strong and complete and does a good informative job on the topic of refugee children. The article contains a lot of information and can be linked back to other Wikipedia pages which makes it resourceful for many different topics. In order to help enhance or improve this article, I do agree with the suggestion in the Talk Page that each section can be made into their own wiki pages and this article can have links to these various pages which will provide even more detailed information on each topic.

Newcomer Education Evaluation: The lead sentence of tis article does a good job of discussing the overall information that the rest of the article will be presenting. The introduction discusses the importance and benefits for education for immigrants and refugees to address important issues like employment, trauma, culture shock, and social integration. This article is more brief than other articles and gives a background and then goes into Challenges and Best Practices with different subheadings. There are a variety of sources in the article for each section that do work and link to other sources. However, one component I noticed is that each section like funding, teacher training, and trauma-informed teaching practices are pretty brief and there are tons of more sources and information that can be added to this piece. For instance, the article can include information on newcomer education from international sources like Germany and Canada. This can give different perspectives on the topic and provide more useful information for how newcomer education is being addressed in both the United States and abroad. Newcomer Education Evaluation: The lead sentence of tis article does a good job of discussing the overall information that the rest of the article will be presenting. The introduction discusses the importance and benefits for education for immigrants and refugees to address important issues like employment, trauma, culture shock, and social integration. This article is more brief than other articles and gives a background and then goes into Challenges and Best Practices with different subheadings. There are a variety of sources in the article for each section that do work and link to other sources. The sources and the article do not seem to contain any bias and has a neutral tone. However, one component I noticed is that each section like funding, teacher training, and trauma-informed teaching practices are pretty brief and there are tons of more sources and information that can be added to this sections and can help elaborate the needs.. For instance, the article can include information on newcomer education from international sources like Germany and Canada. This can give different perspectives on the topic and provide more useful information for how newcomer education is being addressed in both the United States and abroad. The talk page of this article discusses how the talk page's name should be changed from newcomer to refugee and that the article should be split in two. Besides that, there is not anymore information present on the talk page. Also, in terms of containing photos for this article, there can be more pictures added to describe newcomer education because it can only help enhance the article. Overall, the article can have a lot more information added which will only help strengthen the information conveyed. This will make the article seem more useful.