User:Rachelswimmer/Choose an Article

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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Area

 * Education in Peru
 * The Education in Peru article leaves a lot to be desired. This article provides only the bones, and is missing the meat of the information. The Lead to the article is clear, but does not provide enough detail or give an overview of the coming sections that will be discussed. The general structure of the article is good, but lacks images and diagrams. The content in the article could be more balanced, by providing information about indigenous peoples education as well as the discrepancies between rural and urban schools. The sections provided in the article are relevant, however not enough information is provided that could give the reader a sense of the topic. Numerous times the author also makes a claim or fact without citing a secondary source which makes the information unreliable. What is cited is generally outdated, and many citations are from official websites which is not viewed by Wikipedia as being a substantial source such as citing the Peruvian Ministry of Education or UNICEF. In general, the tone of the article is neutral and does not seem to have a bias of one side towards the other. Overall, this article needs a lot of work especially considering the WikiProject Education placed this article as being top-priority.
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 * Peruvian families are increasingly migrating toward private education, which showcases one of the global leaders in transforming education into a market. Peru also has the biggest achievement gap between rich and poor students in all of Latin America. Privatized Peruvian education has increased educational disparities.
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 * Peruvian families are increasingly migrating toward private education, which showcases one of the global leaders in transforming education into a market. Peru also has the biggest achievement gap between rich and poor students in all of Latin America. Privatized Peruvian education has increased educational disparities.

Sector

 * Indigenous education
 * The Indigenous education article is missing a lot of information. The Lead to the article gives a good overview of what the reader can expect to see in the coming sections, however the introductory paragraphs were flagged by Wikipedia for plagiarism. This means that the entire Lead needs to be rewritten in a person's own words so as to not infringe on Copyright laws. The structure of the article is good, but a lot of information is missing and should be added. For example, I think this article should include the history of the battle for indigenous education to explain the tumultuous climb for equal rights in indigenous communities. I also think the article should be broken down by region since indigenous communities have so much variation especially in regards to education. The balance of the article is a little off, and should incorporate a wide spectrum of indigenous approaches to education across the entire world. The tone of the article also comes off as being biased toward indigenous education and against the Western model. This article needs to take on a more neutral approach, rather than promoting one style of learning. The citations for this article are also out of date, and sometimes the author does not even cite facts or claims they make in their writing. Overall, the article needs to include more information about indigenous peoples as well as editing many grammatical errors.
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Indigenous language education has been removed from Guatemalan curriculum which has been leading to language loss and loss of cultural ties to students' heritage. Teachers have taken on the responsibility of keeping these ties alive by having agency and taking on ownership of reteaching indigenous education. By teaching indigenous language and culture, these teachers have facilitated a culture of peace in a country that is still recovering from civil war.