{"id":1295,"date":"2008-04-17T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2008-04-17T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T13:57:44","slug":"100-million-how-will-it-be-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"$100 million… how will it be used?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at today’s New York Times story<\/a> on AT&T Aspire<\/a>, the $100 million effort to reduce dropping out. In reality, $100 million is a visible splash and not chump change, but it’s a small amount compared to all the money spent on high schools every year. That effort to get a visible splash to serve as a lever is common with educational philanthropy these days. After all, Bill and Melinda Gates’s entire fortune is only a few billion dollars more than what California taxpayers spend every year<\/i> on education. <\/p>\n

There’s very little information about this on the AT&T Foundation website, other than working with Colin and Alma Powell’s organization America’s Promise<\/a> to create local partnerships through “dropout summits.” At that level, it looks remarkably like the early 1960s efforts I chronicled in Creating the Dropout<\/a>. It doesn’t have to be as ineffective as those efforts, and I hope this time around, it works out better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking at today’s New York Times story on AT&T Aspire, the $100 million effort to reduce dropping out. In reality, $100 million is a visible splash and not chump change, but it’s a small amount compared to all the money spent on high schools every year. That effort to get a visible splash to serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-kT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}