Natasha Singer reports: A week after California enacted a landmark law restricting the ways education technology companies can use the information they collect about elementary through high school students, a group of leading industry players is pledging to adopt similar data protections nationwide. The 14 companies include: Microsoft; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the educational publishing house; Amplify, a…
Category: Youth & Schools
Politics Trumped Facts in the Fight To Kill InBloom in New York
Sheila Kaplan (EducationNY) writes: The good news about inBloom’s brief involvement with New York is that more parents are now aware of the collection and use of their children’s information. But the bad news far outweighed this new-found concern for student privacy issues. Unfortunately, the political maneuverings and vitriol of anti-inBloom forces ultimately spread misinformation…
Embattled Batavia teacher to step down
Christopher Placek and Susan Sarkauskas report: A Batavia High School teacher who advised his students that they had a constitutional right not to fill out a school survey on risky behavior is retiring from his position, officials said. Social studies teacher John Dryden submitted his letter of resignation to Batavia School District 101 officials Friday,…
Illinois school district declines to collect data on infants for Obama-linked institute
Kyle Olson reports: The River Forest School District 90 has declined to participate in a controversial data collection program involving infants. The Sun Times reports: The River Forest School District 90 board has declined participate in the first round of a data collection project by the Oak Park-based Collaboration for Early Childhood Education and Chicago-based Erickson Institute. District…