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What separates this from something state sponsored like the Illinois Report Card (illinoisreportcard.com) that would make me want to use it? It appears a flat
by Loughla 11y ago
What separates this from something state sponsored like the Illinois Report Card (illinoisreportcard.com) that would make me want to use it?
It appears a flat % score is the main draw, but without any sort of information on what that score means, or how it stacks up, it's sort of useless.
- wsvincent 11y agoThe Illinois Report Card is a great resource. If every state had such a tool, I agree you probably wouldn't need EdScore, GreatSchools, SchoolDigger, etc. I built EdScore out of frustration that this data is all public but buried in disparate state/federal databases and not accessible to parents, even though we're paying for it to be compiled/collected. I think ratings (controversial as they are no matter what methodology you use) help parents do a quick sort of local options. And our goal with EdScore is to add search filters like commute distance, home price, school size, special ed offerings etc so that parents can search for the "right" school for their individual child based on various inputs, not a simple "best" rating or 1-10 scale that, absent other factors, is not very informative.