Americorps, austerity-rationing resources, “evidence-based” approaches, big data and the surveillance state, City Year, Class Size, Communities In Schools, interoperability, KIPP charter schools, Moneyball for Government, Pay for Performance, Pay for Success, Student Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Teach for America

A Close Reading of Moneyball for Government & Why You Should Be Worried

July 8, 2018 — 4 Comments

ESSA, global finance, National Secure Database, Pay for Success, social impact bonds, Student Privacy

Gambling With Our Futures: Big Data, Global Finance and Digital Life

January 6, 2018 — 2 Comments

Algorithms, Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, CEP (Commission for Evidence-based Policy), Cortana technology, data breaches, Data Quality Campaign, DataShop, Department of Education (DOE), Dreambox, Edmodo, Evidence based policy, Facebook, Federal Learning Registry, FERPA, Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom, Google Student Accounts, IRS, Knewton, LearnSphere, Microsoft, National Secure Database, NWEA MAP, PROJECT BRAINWAVE, Student Privacy, WORKFORCE Data Quality Campaign, Yet Analytics

Dear Congress, you are being duped. HR4174-S2046 is a Privacy Fail. Here’s why. ( And please no more suspended rules and voice votes on these bills. )

November 19, 2017 — 0 Comments

A Better Way, FERPA, Patty Murray, Student Privacy

Congress Suspending the Rules to Rush through Bill for National Citizen Data System: HR4174.

November 12, 2017 — 4 Comments

Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Blockchain, data breaches, Data Quality Campaign, Evidence based policy, FERPA, Gates' Foundation, social impact bonds, Student Privacy

Bill Gates’ Data Quality Campaign is Coming for Your Child’s Privacy – Again.

October 31, 2017 — 0 Comments

Clever, Facebook-Summit partnership, Student Privacy, Summit Basecamp, Summit Personalized Learning Platform

One Parent’s Experience with Basecamp, Summit’s Personalized Learning Platform

October 28, 2017 — 4 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Diane Taverner, Facebook-Summit partnership, Gates' Foundation, LEAP Innovations, personalized learning, President of the California Charter School Association, Student Privacy, Summit Basecamp, Summit charter schools, Summit Personalized Learning Platform

Parents Rebel Against Summit/Facebook/Chan-Zuckerberg Online Learning Platform

September 5, 2017 — 8 Comments

Student Privacy

A Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy

May 16, 2017 — 0 Comments

Student Privacy

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Releases Study on Student Data Privacy… or lack thereof

April 25, 2017 — 0 Comments

A Better Way, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, FERPA, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Online learning, Social Emotional Learning SEL, Student Privacy

Bill Gates, CASEL and your student’s privacy

February 27, 2017 — 5 Comments

1984, Blended learning, College and Career Ready, Computers in schools, Corporate education reform, Department of Education (DOE), Ed Tech, Online learning, Privatization of schools, Standardized tests, Student Privacy, The Economy and Education

Questions We Should Be Asking About “Future Ready” Schools

October 9, 2016 — 1 Comment

Common Core Standards, Department of Education (DOE), Student Privacy, US Department of Education (USDOE)

Opposition to the Common Core now has bipartisan support in Washington State

June 23, 2016 — 1 Comment