Bill Fitzgerald writes: EdWeek has an article up about inBloom. It commits many of the standard errors when writing about data collection and student privacy. The entire piece is filled with minor errors, but rather than nitpick the entire thing to death I want to highlight some of the general types of mistakes that get in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions
In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high schools across the country. An examination of the complex and contradictory dataset raises serious issues regarding student privacy and the integrity of the Student Testing Program in America’s schools. The data was released after…
NY: Student data portal raises privacy concerns
It’s interesting to see the growing coverage of the student data portal/inBloom controversy in New York. Here’s a news story from Utica: Expected to launch this winter, the EngageNY Portal will offer a database of education information with everything from test scores to student demographics such as wealth and race. Though it sounds like a…
UK: Privacy group reveals more than one million pupils are fingerprinted
Sam Shead reports: More than one million children in England have been fingerprinted by their schools – thousands without their parent’s consent, a report out today has revealed. The report, compiled by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, revealed that 866,000 children had their fingerprints taken in the academic year 2012-13. Read more on TechWorld.