Susanne Pesel reports: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have funded the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) which brings together volunteers and researchers “to build and test measures of effective teaching to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Do Young People Care About Privacy?
Jay Stanley writes: Everywhere I go, I hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe is “just true.” The latest claim to this effect comes in the form of a new poll, the release of which was trumpeted with unfortunate headlines…
NYC Parents Raise Questions About InBloom
From edSurge: The education data portal, inBloom, raised hackles this week among a group of New York City parents and educators who worry about the nonprofit’s plans to compile student information into a wide-ranging education data portal–and they’re organizing against it via email listservs, open forums and legislative bills. Local community opposition to the inBloom plan…
John White Withdraws Louisiana Student Data from inBloom
Andrew Ujifusa writes: In my April 24 blog post on Alabama’s decision to kill anti-Common-Core legislation, I mentioned that opponents have linked the standards, without citing specifics, to technology they allege the federal government is developing to track students’ facial expressions in classroom. However, others also have voiced concerns about student privacy involving academic data and…