Advocacy Dropout Industry Resources 
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. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Let’s start a movement.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 15, 2017
But she has no interest in the food industry. Parents often have to take on the burden of making sure their children are getting the support they need to meet their transition goals because schools simply don’t devote enough resources to this part of special education. For 20 hours a week, she lines muffin pans and preps dessert trays.
Hack Education
JULY 28, 2017
“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. . “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ”).
The Hechinger Report
JULY 6, 2018
Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. The standoff between the federal government and the states comes as DeVos has appointed several for-profit college industry executives to high-level positions overseeing their former companies and others.
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