User:Jialynnh/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bilingual education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am interested in how bilingual education is implemented across the world. This has implications for how governments fund education and whether or not they choose to care about preserving languages that might be lost. My first impression is that there is very little information from peer reviewed journals, and it seems to be very lacking in a world perspective.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is missing an explanation of the article's major sections, and it seems to be too short to fully give a brief overview of what bilingual education really is. The content is not up to date and seems to be heavily based on bilingual education in the United States, there is not much content about other countries or languages other than English. It also lacks content on minority groups in the United States. For example, it does not mention Native Americans or Native Hawaiians and their struggle to maintain their native languages in a country dominated by English. It seems to represent a neutral point of view, but again it is heavily English and United States dominated and excludes other countries and languages. Many of the sources seem to be the pages for different bilingual education programs, and while they are informative might be biased towards their mode of education. There are not as many sources from peer reviewed academic journals which should be the primary source instead of webpages from organizations. This article is not very well organized, as it focuses too much on America and nothing about the rest of the world. The talk page does not seem to have been updated in quite some time, the most recent comments I could find were from 2018 so this really needs some updating. The strengths of this article is that there are defined sections, however the perspective does not represent a worldview and instead is heavily USA biased. It is underdeveloped and requires more research into bilingual education in other countries with other languages other than English.