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I am a student at Drake University studying politics and sociology. I would love to combat systematic bias involving international education programs or Educational Inequality .

Plan for editing

I plan on becoming an editor for the article Educational Inequality, I see a lot I would like to change. I would like to restructure this article completely. I plan on going through it piece by piece, evaluating the information in each section and then deciding on the best placement of each piece. Also, while going through each section, I plan on looking for an encyclopedia-like tone throughout the article.

After evaluating the content of the current article, I realized that there is a lot of information that should be added. When I add information, I intend to add both the global north and global south perspectives. With this information, I want the reader to compare between the countries and have an unbiased look at educational inequality. Also, by infusing information about the global south throughout, I intend to rid the article of systematic bias. I plan on adding information to the sections on early educational interventions such as the head start program, international education programs, family background, the gender gap, policy implications, the projects of NGO’s and the reasons for inequality.

Lastly, I intend on insuring that the citations throughout the article are credible and that I use a wide range of sources. While analyzing the article, I saw that some sections were lacking citations or that they were not credible. Through adding these in, I hope that the article becomes more credible and less systematically biased.

Working Bibliography

Sources to add in multiple perspectives

Asada, Y., Whipp, A., Kindig, D., Billard, B., & Rudolph, B. (2014). Inequalities in multiple health outcomes by education, sex, and race in 93 US counties: Why we should measure them all. International Journal For Equity In Health, 13(1), 1-18. doi:10.1186/1475-9276-13-47

Bhopal, K., & Maylor, U. (2013). Educational Inequalities [electronic resource] : Difference and Diversity in Schools and Higher Education. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,.

Ferreira, F. H., & Gignoux, J. (2014). The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity. The World Bank Economic Review, 28(2), 210-246.

Kyunghee, J., Young-Ho, K., Hong-Jun, C., & Sung-Cheol, Y. (2014). Decomposition of educational differences in life expectancy by age and causes of death among South Korean adults. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1934-1950. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-560

Meschi, E., & Scervini, F. (2014). Expansion of schooling and educational inequality in Europe: the educational Kuznets curve revisited. Oxford Economic Papers, 66(3), 660-680.

Reisel, L. (2011). Two Paths to Inequality in Educational Outcomes Family Background and Educational Selection in the United States and Norway. Sociology of Education, 84(4), 261-280.

Shrivastava, Meenal, and Sanjiv Shrivastava. 2014. "Political economy of higher education: comparing South Africa to trends in the world." Higher Education 67, no. 6: 809-822. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed October 5, 2014).

von Below, S., Powell, J. W., & Roberts, L. W. (2013). Educational Systems and Rising Inequality: Eastern Germany after Unification. Sociology Of Education, 86(4), 362-375.

Sources to Measure Inequality

Thomas, V., Wang, Y., & Fan, X. (2001). Measuring education inequality: Gini coefficients of education (Vol. 2525). World Bank Publications.