User:Melired

Hello! My name is Melissa! I currently live in Houston and am a sophomore in college. I am interested in studying racial disparities, educational inequalities and human rights issues. I also want to study the effects of colonials and neoliberalism through a global lens. I look forward to editing and creating pages on these topics as I become a member of the Wikipedia community.

I am currently working on updating pages that relate to social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Impact of COVID-19 on Education and Gendered impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. The article I edited during the months of October-December 2020 was Educational Inequalities in the U.S. I look forward to continuing my work on Wikipedia and contributing to its collective knowledge!

Current Proposed Topics
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19

·      The article hasn’t been significantly updates since last summer, which means it is missing important aspects of the pandemic that have happened since then. I want to add more information to reflect the current state of affairs. Also, there was some controversy on the talk page about bias, so I hope to provide information that can make the page more neutral. Possible revisions would be to add more global information to the page, and provide more information to certain sections, like women caregivers and increase in unpaid work.

1.     Gebhard, Catherine, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Hannelore K. Neuhauser, Rosemary Morgan, and Sabra L. Klein. "Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe." Biology of sex differences 11 (2020): 1-13.

2.     Riley, Taylor, Elizabeth Sully, Zara Ahmed, and Ann Biddlecom. "Estimates of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health in low-and middle-income countries." International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 46 (2020): 73-76.

3.     Klein, Sabra L., Santosh Dhakal, Rebecca L. Ursin, Sharvari Deshpande, Kathryn Sandberg, and Franck Mauvais-Jarvis. "Biological sex impacts COVID-19 outcomes." PLoS pathogens 16, no. 6 (2020): e1008570.

4.     Power, Kate. "The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the care burden of women and families." Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 16, no. 1 (2020): 67-73.

5.     Galasso, Vincenzo, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard, and Martial Foucault. "Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 44 (2020): 27285-27291.

6.     Reichelt, Malte, Kinga Makovi, and Anahit Sargsyan. "The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes." European Societies (2020): 1-18.

7.     Hossain, Mobarak. "Gender differences in experiencing coronavirus-triggered economic hardship: evidence from four developing countries." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 71 (2021): 100555.

8.     Wenham, Clare, Julia Smith, and Rosemary Morgan. "COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak." The lancet 395, no. 10227 (2020): 846-848.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education

I primarily would like to focus on the subsection “impact on formal education.” Currently this section has a lot of information about the U.S. specifically. I am considering creating a new page that focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United States. An alternative to making this new page would be to add more global perspectives to this page.

1.    Daniel, John. "Education and the COVID-19 pandemic." Prospects 49, no. 1 (2020): 91-96.

2.    Zhu, Xudong, and Jing Liu. "Education in and after Covid-19: Immediate responses and long-term visions." Postdigital Science and Education 2, no. 3 (2020): 695-699.

3.    Ferdig, Richard E., Emily Baumgartner, Richard Hartshorne, Regina Kaplan-Rakowski, and Chrystalla Mouza, eds. Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2020.

4.    Marinoni, Giorgio, Hilligje Van’t Land, and Trine Jensen. "The impact of Covid-19 on higher education around the world." IAU Global Survey Report (2020).

5.    Burgess, Simon, and Hans Henrik Sievertsen. "Schools, skills, and learning: The impact of COVID-19 on education." (2020).

6.    Allen, Jeanne, Leonie Rowan, and Parlo Singh. "Teaching and teacher education in the time of COVID-19." (2020): 233-236.

7.    Middleton, Kyndra V. "The Longer‐Term Impact of COVID‐19 on K–12 Student Learning and Assessment." Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 39, no. 3 (2020): 41-44.

8.    Garbe, Amber, Uzeyir Ogurlu, Nikki Logan, and Perry Cook. "Parents’ experiences with remote education during COVID-19 school closures." American Journal of Qualitative Research 4, no. 3 (2020): 45-65.

9.    Dorn, Emma, Bryan Hancock, Jimmy Sarakatsannis, and Ellen Viruleg. "COVID-19 and student learning in the United States: The hurt could last a lifetime." McKinsey & Company (2020).

10.Arnove, Robert F. "Imagining what education can be post-COVID-19." Prospects 49 (2020): 43-46.

Previous Proposed Topics
Racial Education Inequality

I am interested in reforming the Race section in the Education Inequality wikipedia page. There is no reference to racial systemic differences that cause educational inequalities to persist. I would like to expand the Race section, and possibly add another sub section under this that addresses the reasons why racial education inequality in the U.S exists. I want to address the causes of educational inequality on the basis of race, which is not currently addressed in this Wikipedia page.


 * 1) Barton, Paul E., and Richard J. Coley. "The Black-White Achievement Gap: When Progress Stopped. Policy Information Report." Educational Testing Service (2010).
 * 2) Milner, H. Richard. “Beyond a Test Score: Explaining Opportunity Gaps in Educational Practice.” Journal of Black Studies 43, no. 6 (September 2012): 693–718. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934712442539.
 * 3) Lleras, Christy. “Race, Racial Concentration, and the Dynamics of Educational Inequality Across Urban and Suburban Schools.” American Educational Research Journal 45, no. 4 (December 2008): 886–912. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831208316323.
 * 4) http://www.collegeresults.org/search2d.aspx?&y=2017 (a tool that compares demographics in higher education)
 * 5) Page, Lindsay & Murnane, Richard & Willett, John. (2008). Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER Working Papers. 10.3386/w14213.
 * 6) Robert D. Mare, Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Educational Mobility, and Racial Inequality, Social Science Research,Volume 26, Issue 3,1997,Pages 263-291,ISSN 0049-089X, https://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.1997.0598.
 * 7) Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico,The racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery, Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 581-595, ISSN 0147-5967, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2012.04.001.
 * 8) Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, The racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery, Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 581-595, ISSN 0147-5967, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2012.04.001.
 * 9) Lin, Ann Chih., Harris, David R.. The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. United States: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.
 * 10) Pedro A. Noguera (Guest Editor) (2017) Introduction to “Racial Inequality and Education: Patterns and Prospects for the Future”, The Educational Forum, 81:2, 129-135, DOI: 10.1080/00131725.2017.1280753
 * 11) Vincent J. Roscigno, Family/School Inequality and African-American/Hispanic Achievement, Social Problems, Volume 47, Issue 2, 1 May 2000, Pages 266–290, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097201