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Collecting Student Data Is OK As Long As It’s Shared?

July 21, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

The answer to addressing the problem of student data mining is not to make it more accessible, but to do less, preferably none at all.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Data Quality Campaign, student data collection, student data privacy, The Hechinger Report

The Status of the Big Student Data Grab in the States

July 14, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

The Data Quality Campaign released its annual report on how states are doing at accomplishing their policy agenda for student data collection.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Data Quality Campaign, student data collection, student data privacy

Rhode Island Teacher May Lose Job Over Protecting Student Data

May 19, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

Photo credit: Michael Derr The future employment of Shelley McDonald, a math teacher at North Kingstown High School, remains undetermined. She is pictured with John Leidecker, NEA-RI deputy executive director, during a February hearing about alleged insubordination.

Shelley McDonald, a math teacher, says if she agreed to the terms of use, the company that owns the PARCC, Pearson, could sell personal student information.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments, Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: North Kingston High School, PARCC, Phil Auger, Shelley McDonald, student data collection, student data privacy

The Hatch-Markey Amendment Does Nothing to Protect Privacy

July 14, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

The amendment co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) & Ed Markey (D-MA) doesn’t actually protect privacy, but creates a committee to study it.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Ed Markey, Every Child Achieves Act, Orrin Hatch, S. 1177, student data collection, student data privacy

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s Awful Executive Order on Data Collection

July 13, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley issued an executive order related to student data collection that established the state’s longitudinal database system.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Alabama, Robert Bentley, student data collection, student data privacy

Parents Are Not Helpless

June 3, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Laurie H. Rogers yesterday wrote a piece entitled “The Myth of the Helpless Parent,”  she discussed how schools impress upon students “I can” statements, but that parents need to vocalize “we can” statements in light of schools that sometimes lack accountability and abuse our trust. We need to remember that we, as parents, are not […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Laurie H. Rogers, parental opt out, school choice, student data collection

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