Michelle Andrews reports: The health law opened the door for millions of young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. But there’s a downside to remaining on the family plan. Chances are that mom or dad, as policyholder, will get a notice from the insurer every time the grown-up kid…
Category: Youth & Schools
Groups Protest NAEP Plan to Assess Student Mindsets
Shane Vander Hart reports: The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) that governs the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has announced it will expand beyond assessing students’ academic content knowledge to also include subjective, non-cognitive, socioemotional parameters. Such factors will include “grit,” “desire for learning,” and “school climate.” Assessing “mindsets” of students potentially will allow…
Connecticut College Students Join a Suit Against Google
Erik Ofgang reports that another former Yale student has joined the lawsuit against Google for allegedly scanning Gmail for advertising purposes despite assurances that they weren’t doing that: Ett is one of 38 Yale students and seven University of Connecticut students, as well as more than 800 students from 16 other universities including Harvard and New…
Is predictive analytics a step too far in student assistance?
Jarrett Carter writes: The concept of academic intrusion isn’t novel, but the usage of monitoring technology invites a lot of questions and possibilities for things that can go wrong. Institutions should be extraordinarily careful not to paint a particular type of student with data points on academic performance, without the investment in the human resources to…