Barb Berggoetz reports: Imagine a giant database filled with every Hoosier student’s elementary and high school achievement test scores, SAT scores, college degrees and eventually job and salary history. State officials are preparing to build it. They want it to tell them exactly what happens to students who don’t finish high school or who switch…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Government offers school pupil data to private companies
Olivia Solon reports: Data relating to every school pupil in England is now available for use by private companies thanks to a change in legislation implemented last year. The move is part of a wider government initiative to “marketise” data, which includes initiatives such as the much-criticised Care.data and the selling off of taxpayer data by HMRC. Education Secretary Michael…
What the Failure of inBloom Means for the Student-Data Industry
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.
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…