Is there a connection between the Common Core and data privacy violations?
inBloom was sold to states and districts and still is being justified by NY State as helping kids become “college and career ready,” and its interoperable instructional tools were supposed to be be aligned with the Common Core.
It is clear, in any case, that having the same common standards and tests across states would simplify the task of comparing and collecting student data, and that the feds wanted to encourage this data collection and sharing through their revisions of FERPA and via their grants for state longitudinal data systems provided by the fiscal stimulus funds and Race to the Top.
But I had thought the close connection the right wingers had made between the Common Core and violating student privacy was rather tangential until today; when I happened to watch a video of Joy Pullman at the Heartland Institute of all places - with whom I disagree on almost every issue. She showed this slide:
PARCC and SBAC are the two Common Core testing consortia that were established with federal grants. Here is a list of PARCC states , including New York (though I believe Indiana Florida and Pennsylvania have now pulled out.) Here is a map of the SBACstates.
I looked up the quote above, and sure enough I found it in both the PARCC and SBAC agreements with the US Department of