Missouri Education Watchdog: Look Who Else Is Concerned About Data Collection and Privacy

Missouri Education Watchdog: Look Who Else Is Concerned About Data Collection and Privacy:

Look Who Else Is Concerned About Data Collection and Privacy

by Anngie

We have been warning parents about the potential for their child's personal data to be widely shared across government agencies and with private interests who claim some link to education. Now teachers are beginning to realize that they will be part of the data collection process and their entire teaching careers will be tracked, assessed, and possibly publicized.

Anthony Cody at EducationWeek Teacher posted a great piece a couple months ago summing up the concerns with the longitudinal data systems.

What will it mean for every one of the nation's 50 million students to have a unique ID number, and be included in a national database that tracks every test they ever take? And teachers will get ID