Crowdsourcing for quality schools

What makes a school good?

The outward signs are relatively simple, at least the ones commonly relied upon by teachers deciding where to work and parents deciding where to send their children. They look for high test scores, positive word-of-mouth, and community involvement. And as anyone concerned with the future of urban education knows, several generations of engaged parents and teachers have consistently opted for suburban schools, which regularly outpace their urban counterparts on these indicators.

Yet this is in many ways a self-fulfilling prophecy — because engaged adults bring to schools the energy, skills, and resources that ultimately generate high test scores, positive word-of-mouth, and community involvement.