Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Crowdsourcing Turnaround Coverage

When I read Database on Schools Slated for Turnaround Coming Soon, courtesy of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform I apparently took it a little too literally. There is a handy list of the designated schools in their report, but not a publicly-facing database.

What would be great would be a website which included a wiki where narrative descriptions and histories of the schools and their turnarounds could be contributed, as well as a more structured component that would allow people to contribute all the various quantitative data that Annenberg probably doesn't have the interns to gather themselves.

Who knows how many Elmhurst Community Preps are out there (this is a pretty good profile of one of our "persistently lowest performing")?

1 comment:

Leroy's Mom said...

Hmm, that would be an interesting project...
I wonder who would contribute? I wonder who could contribute? Let me know if someone sets up one of those thingys, could be interesting...