User:Lanyiruan/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Rice School

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I was interested in bilingual education so I clicked into the bilingual education section. Then I was intrigued by the name of this K-8 school called The Rice School, and was curious if it had anything to do with Rice University.

Evaluate the article
I think the lead section is pretty effective, with a clear introduction of what grades the school serve, what academic areas the school focus on, the location of the school, and its founder. However, the lead section does not include much about what is going to follow in the article.

The article is overall relevant to the main topic. However, the history of the school is only up to 2010, and could be more up to date. Unfortunately, this article shows tendency of discrimination, especially in the following line: "There were no academic admission standards, leading the student body to initially include middle and low income African-Americans and Hispanics and wealthy Whites with varying ranges of ability," in the admissions section, where it describes wealth and academic capabilities in terms of race.

The article is fairly well written and easy to read, although some paragraphs seem to be unnecessarily lengthy, including the two paragraphs that talks about the controversy of having reserved spots for children of Rice faculty.

Overall, I think although the article provides a lot of information, a lot of the information are biased or not well written. The overall rating of the article on wikipedia is Start-class, which is low. The article could be improved by getting more up to date information, removing discriminatory information, and adding more information that are more relevant.