How Do You Select a School?

We have grown accustomed to selecting a gadget or a new laptop via comparisons. Now there is competition heating up for finding the right school. Sites such as GreatSchools and Education.com are providing useful interfaces into an enormous amount of data. These sites even get reviewed by Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal.

These three sites provide a good overall idea of what certain schools can offer, though GreatSchools.net seems to have the richest content in its school comparison section. Education.com excels as a general education site and will be a comfort to parents in search of reliable advice. Its newly added SchoolFinder, while it's in early stages now, will only improve this resource for parents and students.

Wall Street Journal "Grading Neighborhood Schools"

These sites ignore the preschool set. You can find a list of preschools on MomHub though. What are you looking for in a school for your kids?