How GreatSchools Rankings Encourage Neighborhood Segregation

My family’s struggle to measure school quality by more than just a number

Cindy Lo Collister
The Bold Italic
Published in
12 min readMay 29, 2019

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The day we committed to enrolling our firstborn in a “5 out of 10” public elementary school in California, I walked probably a hundred laps around its grounds. Thinking and praying, with my eyes peering through the metal fence at the kids…

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