{"id":1299,"date":"2008-04-19T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T22:34:07","slug":"silence-on-att-aspire-an-ed-in-08-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Silence on AT&#038;T Aspire an &#8220;Ed in &#8217;08&#8221; parallel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it my imagination, or has there been a deafening silence in both news outlets and the blogosphere after the AT&amp;T Foundation&#8217;s announcement Wednesday of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/2008\/04\/17\/34att.h27.html\">$100 Million Dropout Prevention Program<\/a>? I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/001253.html\">wrote about the initiative<\/a> Thursday, but given the lead-in publicity (the America&#8217;s Promise report with Ed Week about low graduation rates?), I expected more commentary than just my note about the history of outcries about and responses to dropping out. <\/p>\n<p>I know that $100 million is a drop in the bucket compared to public-school spending, but it&#8217;s a <i>big<\/i> splash in philanthropy and usually gets more attention than the Ed Week article (linked above) or the <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/news\/updates\/index.php?id=4417\">Chronicle of Philanthropy note<\/a> on the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it my imagination, or has there been a deafening silence in both news outlets and the blogosphere after the AT&amp;T Foundation&#8217;s announcement Wednesday of a $100 Million Dropout Prevention Program? I wrote about the initiative Thursday, but given the lead-in publicity (the America&#8217;s Promise report with Ed Week about low graduation rates?), I expected [&hellip;]<\/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-1299","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-kX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}