#Truthy and Common Core Data Sets. Just WHY is the US Government Tracking Us?
Data mining of student information via The Common Core States Initiative and the State Stabilization Funding has been a big concern at Missouri Education Watchdog for many years. We’ve thought from the beginning the the standards were necessary not for educational reasons, but they served as the vehicle for data gathering:
the common core standards initiative is the vehicle that drives the longitudinal data system. Without the adoption of the standards, the data system could not collect the amount of student data needed to supply various federal agencies and private researchers for workforce purposes.
Peter Green agrees and writes in The Huffington Post the real reason for Common Core adoption and implementation. From Are Common Core Standards Actually Data Tags?: