Advocacy Dropout Industry Policies 
Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Like any business, the edtech industry includes actors that prioritize profit. This is not a condemnation of edtech as much as it is an acknowledgement that edtech is a business.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. Those spending more? Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming — and California. Some of what is happening here is inspiring similar reforms around the country.
Hack Education
JULY 28, 2017
Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The New York Times continues its coverage of the awfulness of tech companies’ employee policies : “Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements.”
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 6, 2022
The United States leaves it to states to set policy, and, absent statewide bans, local school districts make their own rules. District policy is to respect parents’ preferences, but that doesn’t always happen. Globally, 135 countries prohibit corporal punishment in schools. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.
Hack Education
MARCH 10, 2017
” Via NPR : “ Trump ’s International Policies Could Have Lasting Effects On Higher Ed.” More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. And more about Trump and for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
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