Ariel Bogle writes: InBloom’s failure is a teachable moment in trust-building and accountability for the next company in this space—and you can be sure there will be more than a few trying to get a piece in a K-12 education software market said to be now worth about $8 billion. Read more on Slate.
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Teachers hit back at permanent surveillance in the classroom
Emma Carr writes: A survey conducted by the NASUWT teaching union, has highlighted that teachers are being subjected to “permanent surveillance” through the use of CCTV cameras in the classroom. What is clear is that the surveillance experiment of the past twenty years has failed to reduce crime or improve public safety. Yet, schoolchildren and teachers across…
Pupils and irises: A closer look at biometric technologies in schools
Adam Vrankuli writes: Biometric technology is making its presence known in a number of different sectors, and schools have proven to be a particularly controversial avenue of this recent expansion. Parents concerned for the privacy of their children, uncertain or unclear procurements, legislative pressures and issues surrounding decision-making are just a few of the issues…
Data service inBloom calls it quits
Jo Napolitano reports: The technology nonprofit inBloom, created to build a massive cloud-based student data system, announced Monday it will close — just weeks after New York ordered it to delete state student records. In an open letter posted to the group’s website, inBloom chief executive Iwan Streichenberger said the Atlanta-based organization had become “a…