As Tennessee schools move to a new nationally shared test under Common Core standards, the state’s Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman has taken a formal pledge that personal student information won’t be shared with the federal government as part of that transition. Huffman and 33 other schoolcommissioners issued a letter sent to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Thursday to “confirm” that states taking one of two common assessments next year would not be sharing personally identifiable information with the U.S. Education Department or other federal agencies. Common Core critics have raised privacy concerns over the new computer-based Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test, which Tennessee plans to use when it moves to Common Core standards in the fall. In the letter, however, the state education leaders say that sharing data hasn’t been been a practice — nor will it be.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:00:01 +0000
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