Education Blogger Mercedes Schneider warns: Beware of Data...
Fellow pro-public education blogger Mercedes Schneider is one of the most powerful and important voices in the anti-corporate education reform industry movement. Her research is extraordinarily...
View ArticleConnecticut Pumps Millions into Google Books But….
Once again, Diane Ravitch, the nation’s leading public education advocate has honored me by re-posting one of my Wait, What? blog posts. This one about Governor Malloy’s decision to put $25 million...
View ArticleConnecticut parent on why she opted her children out of the Common Core SBAC...
Jennifer Jacobsen is a parent, education advocate and has become a leading voice in the effort to educate parents about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test and the...
View ArticleThey have your child’s data and they aren’t afraid to use it.
The first in series about the lack of adequate protections related to student data and privacy Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of...
View ArticleWill CT elected officials enact appropriate safeguards on student privacy...
The Connecticut General Assembly will soon be acting on House Bill #7017, An Act Concerning Student Data Privacy. However, as of now this critically important legislation is little more than an empty...
View ArticleGoogle Spying on 40 Million K-12 Students…
But it is okay, because as one industry professional put it, “We understand that any data collected is not used for behavioral advertising and all other data uses are aggregated and anonymous.” Oh,...
View ArticleWhat parents don’t know about the massive data collection that is taking...
Last November, the Washington Post headline read, The astonishing amount of data being collected about your children. The article reported on the “Brave New World” of data collection and data mining...
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