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Monday, April 22, 2013

John White and InBloom: It Ain’t Over, Folks | deutsch29

John White and InBloom: It Ain’t Over, Folks | deutsch29:


John White and InBloom: It Ain’t Over, Folks

On Friday, April 19, I wrote a post regarding John White’s supposedly pulling out of student data storage with the Gates-and-Murdoch-associated nonprofit, InBloom. Since that time, I added an update to my original post, which I will reproduce here for those who might have missed it:
UPDATE 04-20-13:
Fellow Louisiana blogger crazycrawfish (former LDOE manager of data) has included this information in this post:
“John White unwittingly sent us a file for yet another (third?) data aggregator he shared student data with and did not run by BESE. You see, these xml files look like they came from and/or go to Ed-Fi if you read the header for this file. Ed-Fi is yet another data aggregation company owned by a different set of billionaires, Michael and Susan Dell. …
“To summarize this set of emails (pdf available in post): it appears the Louisiana Department of Education was