User:Ohm1129/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Educational inequality in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article overviews the educational inequality in America, from what causes it and how. I think this article provides good background to the research I am hoping to do in PWR.

Evaluate the article
Tone

- Article is very facts-based and doesn't provide an opinion or push a "side". Is very logical and nonpartisan

- Highlights the importance and issues of this inequality. Though there's no opinions being shared, the citations and information strongly shows the history and presence of educational inequality in America.

References

- There are many, good quality citations

- Any scientific mention for a study or some political paper or historical fact is paired with a citation.

- There is variation in the type of sources used - books, websites, government publications, legal documents, research papers

Talk Page

- The talk page has a decent amount of postings. This isn't an extremely popular wikipedia page so it's not blowing up with talk posts, but there are a fair number of discussions occurring

- What stood out to me is the talk pages were largest for current education issues, like racial inequality, white supremacy in schools, staffing issues, and a lot of suggestions for the achievement gap related sections. This shows me that this page is frequently being revised and grown to match the developing educational landscape.

Content

- I think there's a good amount of content on the page that is shared in the proper manner

- Nothing goes too deep into a subject, but everything is referenced so a reader can go access a different source to dive deeper

- At the same time, the breadth of coverage is amazing. The article covers not only funding and achievement gaps today, but historical changes in the school systems, including segregation, public and private schools, etc...