Parents sharing the process of searching for a school in Greater Philadelphia. What kind of school are you looking for? Charter, public, private, city, suburban?
Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything. –Gregg Easterbrook
98% of all statistics are made up. –Unknown
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. –Aaron Levenstein
Statistics can be made to prove anything – even the truth.– Unknown
In case those quotes were too subtle, let me state it plainly. I don’t trust statistics in general, especially in the absence of other evaluation criteria. Now that that is out of the way, I wanted to share a resource that I found. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a very interesting interactive map of regional school districts and some statistics like starting teacher salaries, total enrollment, percentage of students in “gifted and talented” programs, and more.
Len Lipkin
PSS Community
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