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Todd Feathers on the Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

May 19, 2023

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The Markup reporter Todd Feathers describes investigating a Wisconsin Department of Instruction tool called DEWS and how race factors into this algorithm to predict students at risk of not graduating.

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