How Local Organizations Shape US Education: Book Launch and Panel

The talk explores how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. Using the case of school dropout prediction systems, it provides a behind-the-scenes look at how local organizations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City have transformed data and dropping out. More broadly, it shows that changes in a decentralized system happen less through top-down or bottom-up processes, and more through "outside-in" initiatives of networked organizations. A panel discussion will follow the talk.