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Tag: student data collection

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

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.

July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 Shane Vander Hart
Privacy/SLDS Data Quality Campaign, student data collection, student data privacy, The Hechinger Report

The Status of the Big Student Data Grab in the States

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

July 14, 2017 Shane Vander Hart
Privacy/SLDS Data Quality Campaign, student data collection, student data privacy1 Comment on The Status of the Big Student Data Grab in the States

Rhode Island Teacher May Lose Job Over Protecting Student Data

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.

May 19, 2016 Shane Vander Hart
Common Core Assessments, Privacy/SLDS North Kingston High School, PARCC, Phil Auger, Shelley McDonald, student data collection, student data privacy1 Comment on Rhode Island Teacher May Lose Job Over Protecting Student Data

The Hatch-Markey Amendment Does Nothing to Protect Privacy

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.

July 14, 2015 Shane Vander Hart
Privacy/SLDS 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

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

July 13, 2015 Shane Vander Hart
Privacy/SLDS Alabama, Robert Bentley, student data collection, student data privacy

Parents Are Not Helpless

Laurie H. Rogers yesterday wrote a piece entitled “The Myth of the Helpless Parent,”  she discussed how schools impress upon students “I

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June 3, 2014 Shane Vander Hart
Common Core State Standards Common Core State Standards, Laurie H. Rogers, parental opt out, school choice, student data collection
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