I love this response about data collection in a article I read about Arne Duncan telling the press what to say to critics of Common Core: “When critics can’t persuade you that Common Core is a curriculum, they make even more outlandish claims,” Duncan said. “They say that the Common Core calls for federal collection of student data. For the record, it doesn’t, we’re not allowed to, and we won’t.” Again, that sounds reassuring, but it also triggers a few more questions, such as: If the feds have no interest in collecting student data, why did it use part of the 2009 stimulus to help states purchase longitudinal data systems that are designed to collect, track and analyze student information – from kindergarten all the way through a student’s first after-college job? Why did Duncan’s Department of Education change the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow third-parties – including educational technology companies that will use the data to design computer software – access to student data? And why are federal employees helping standardize the data coding process for the states? Aren’t these odd behaviors for a government that’s so disinterested in collecting student data?
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:39:21 +0000
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