A Bureaucrat Testifies to Where Student/Teacher Data is Sent & For What Purpose. Confirmed: It’s Cradle to Grave. » Missouri Education Watchdog:
A Bureaucrat Testifies to Where Student/Teacher Data is Sent & For What Purpose. Confirmed: It’s Cradle to Grave.
The blueprint for data retrieval has been in plain view for quite some time now if legislators and citizens were curious to know how/why data was being gathered on students and teachers. Some legislators (Republican and Democrat) scoffed at the idea on why parents would be alarmed that their child’s personally identifiable information was being disseminated to unknown entities without parental knowledge and/or permission, and attempts at data privacy bills were stalled by Republican leadership on the state level. A September 2013 MEW post, Common Core Standards and Data Collection Connection, described what data collection included, the purpose, the funding of the systems and how it aligned to the Common Core Standards:
The Common Core proponents say the standards are only that: standards. They contend they have nothing to do with the Longitudinal Data Systems and personally identifiable data collection.Are there data collection requirements associated with the Common Core State Standards?
There are no data collection requirements of states adopting the CCSS. Standards define expectations for what students should know and be able to do by the end of each grade. Implementing the CCSS does not require data collection. The means of assessing students and the data that results from those assessments are up to the discretion of each state and are separate and unique from the CCSS.
From the National PTA: Is the federal government compiling student and family data into a federal database? No. Common Core is not a mechanism for federal data collection. Confusion over data collection likely comes from a misunderstanding of the National Education Data Model (NEDM), which is actually a framework describing the types of data that individual districts and states may choose to use to answer their own questions about policy. The NEDM does not contain any data, and there are no data collection requirements for the Standards. Federal law prohibits the reporting of aggregate data that could identify individual students. In addition, the federal government does not have access to the student-level information held in state databases.
What is their response to this Illinois Data Warehouse September 2010 pdf document?
www.pesc.org/library/docs/…/State%20Core%20Model%2011-17.pdf
It was developed by CCSSO as part of the Common Education Data Standards … The Model is designed to address unique, complex P20 SLDS relationships, business …. (and sometimes prenatally) to age 3; and preschool programs (also called …… along the educational pipeline, which in higher education involves the …
On page 2 it states there is a clear connection with data collection, state longitudinal data systems and in fact, the sets come preloaded with Common Core learning standards:
1.0 Abstract
The State Core Model is a common technical reference model for states implementing state longitudinal data systems (SLDS). It was developed by CCSSO as part of the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) adoption work with funding from the Gates Foundation.
The Model includes early childhood (EC), elementary and secondary (K12), post-secondary (PS), and workforce (WF) elements, known collectively as “P20,” and establishes comparability between sectors and between states. The State Core Model will do for State Longitudinal Data Systems what the Common Core is doing for Curriculum Frameworks and the two assessment consortia.
