Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Shopping for Schools

I wouldn't know how the CPS website looked before it got updated, but I find the website in its current state mostly ordinary, and pretty straight forward. Having had to surf through the hundreds of CPS schools in order to find a couple to student teach at, I have run into only one very annoying complication that is when searching schools: there may be hundreds of search results, but only four schools can be compared at a time. Also, I did not see a way to save possible schools to a list in order to continue research at a later date. The only websites I have seen that have mastered this are shopping sites like Overstock or Amazon, which require the user to sign up with an account, wherein the user can save desired items to "wish lists," or build a compare & contrast chart... I presume it sounds callous of me to compare schools to merchandise, but I can only imagine that a parent wanting the best for their child's education might spend a lot of time comparing the myriad options available or acceptable.

2 comments:

  1. Seriously, can you teach me how to make my blog look so pretty?! You got skilzzzzz!

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  2. i don't think there's anything wrong with comparing commercial sites with organization/non-profit ones. there are lessons to be learned from either area, and i think you make a good point about this here.

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