“In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons.”

Make way for the techno-educrats. Diane Ravitch’s blog reveals their plans for “galvanic skin response” monitoring.

How far will government schools go in collecting data on our students? In this case, St. Louis County parents were able to have this activity-monitoring project to shelved.

San Antonio is doing this in the name of school “safety”. Like all other questionable programs, parents are coaxed into accepting them because it’s for the “good of their children.”

In Communist China, the government keeps data files on each of the ordinary citizens. Unfortunately, that system is well underway to being created here in the USA too.

It is costly, intrusive, threatens our freedoms and is funded by several levels of the government. This was written before 2001. Now,about a decade later, the programs’ names have been changed, and online education and data collection is so ubiquitous that we are becoming desensitized (or resigned) to this intrusion.