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It's so weird to me that all this data exists, and that's it available and munged enough to be actionable. Do colleges really keep track of this for the tens of
by trgn 3y ago
It's so weird to me that all this data exists, and that's it available and munged enough to be actionable. Do colleges really keep track of this for the tens of thousands of high schools, not only that, but all the income info, the mechanics of student placement for each school district, etc... it just seems so intensely convoluted.
- tverbeure 3y agoAll it takes one data brokerage company...
- trgn 3y agoBut how do they keep track of all that even so? e.g. school district lines get redrawn all the time. And each school of sufficient size has AP or IB tracks anyway, which basically kills any comparison. And within those, there may even be a further tiering between magnets that select on aptitude etc etc... and what reporting requirements do schools even have? is this mandated by law? the more data you introduce the more it needs to be corrected for; you know like those "10 best cities to ..." listicles. I don't know. Look at parent's address, correlate with census and income, look at SAT, and be done with it. Solved lol.
- Jensson 3y agoIt doesn't have to be accurate, it just has to be believable to sell the product.
- red-iron-pine 3y agothese schools aren't new. lots of data to be collected, and likely is collected. the schools are in most cases public, in which case there is a mandate for many of these statistics. public money pays, so show us what you're getting for it. this is especially the case given poor and underprivileged students, who have been the focus of many studies (and some targeted funding efforts). the middle school to HS to college pipeline also isn't new at all, and has been tracked for decades. whats really more shocking to me is not that it's happening, but that more people aren't abusing it aggressively.