Intrusive data collection on every citizen….a side effect or the real goal of “education reform”?
February 6, 2012
The latest federal education initiatives have educators and policy-makers concentrating on charter schools, early learning, teacher and principal evaluations, and other weighty topics. However no one is focusing on one of the most disturbing issues looming over all of this….data privacy. All of these policies require massive data collection on every child from infancy, data on physical characteristics, psychological characteristics, health, growth—every aspect of the child.
Read the recent USNEWS. com article: Who Should Have Access to Student Records?
This was predicted many years ago and explained by Fields, Leslie, and Hoge in their essay: “When Johnny Takes the Test”.
You can find this and many other articles on the website of Charlotte Iserbyt
Tags: Common Core State Standards, assessments, early learning, federal, goals 2000, intrusive, lifelong, tracking
The latest federal education initiatives have educators and policy-makers concentrating on charter schools, early learning, teacher and principal evaluations, and other weighty topics. However no one is focusing on one of the most disturbing issues looming over all of this….data privacy. All of these policies require massive data collection on every child from infancy, data on physical characteristics, psychological characteristics, health, growth—every aspect of the child.
Read the recent USNEWS. com article: Who Should Have Access to Student Records?
This was predicted many years ago and explained by Fields, Leslie, and Hoge in their essay: “When Johnny Takes the Test”.
You can find this and many other articles on the website of Charlotte Iserbyt
Tags: Common Core State Standards, assessments, early learning, federal, goals 2000, intrusive, lifelong, tracking