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# Schools Are Quietly Rejecting Education Tech
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/schools-are-quietly-rejecting-education-tech/
- Published: 2026-06-07T22:02:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-07T22:02:54.000Z
- Description: A growing faction of educators and parents are systematically removing devices and software from classrooms—not out of Luddism, but because a decade of ed-tech adoption failed to deliver promised learning gains while introducing new problems like distraction and data harvesting.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, education policy, technology regulation, social movements

Source: [Persuasion](https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/inside-the-anti-tech-rebellion-in)

A growing faction of educators and parents are systematically removing devices and software from classrooms—not out of Luddism, but because a decade of ed-tech adoption failed to deliver promised learning gains while introducing new problems like distraction and data harvesting. The anti-tech school movement is gaining institutional legitimacy as districts reverse platform deployments and teachers rediscover analog methods as more effective, directly challenging venture capital's assumption that education was a greenfield market waiting for disruption.