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Important News In From the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

RIGHT NOW, the Senate HELP (Health Education Labor and Pensions committee) is negotiating  the re-authorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act.  Some members of the committee are pushing for relaxing limits on access to personal student data, saying that researchers should be able to obtain open-ended access to complete student data sets– and that they shouldn’t have to even specify which specific student level data they want for what purposes.

We are urging all parents/advocates to call their Senators in DC ASAP and if possible on Monday morning– ESPECIALLY if your Senator is on the HELP committee (listed with links to their contact info below) and especially the Democrats, and ask to speak to their education staffers with the following message:

As regards the Education Sciences Reform Act, student data used by researchers should be de-identified and anonymized to the extent possible.  In NO case should any researcher obtain open-ended access to personally identifiable student data without parental consent.  There must be strict oversight and protocols, and the researcher must explain exactly what type of personal data they need for what particular purpose and why it is absolutely necessary to complete their analysis and why this could not be achieved with anonymized data.

If you have more time to talk, you can point out that there have been more than 700 reported breaches of personal data from educational institutions since 2005 according to  http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach  .

You can also point out that the NCES has said that Fair Information Practices require that only personal information that is directly relevant and necessary for the specified purpose should be collected and/or shared.

PURPOSE SPECIFICATION— specifically articulating the authority that permits the collection of personally identifiable information and specifically articulating the purpose or purposes for which the personally identifiable information is intended to be used

DATA MINIMIZATION AND RETENTION— only collecting personally identifiable information that is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose(s). Only retaining personally identifiable information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the specified purpose(s)

USE LIMITATION— using personally identifiable information solely for the purpose(s) specified in the public notice. Sharing information should be for a purpose compatible with the purpose for which the information was collected

It is especially important that parents/advocates who live in the states represented by Democrats on the HELP committee call on Monday.

Senate HELP Committee

Democrats by Rank

Tom Harkin (IA)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Patty Murray (WA)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)
Kay R. Hagan (NC)
Al Franken (MN)
Michael F. Bennet (CO)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Christopher S. Murphy (CT)
Elizabeth Warren (MA)

Republicans by Rank

Lamar Alexander (TN)
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Rand Paul (KY)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Mark Kirk (IL)
Tim Scott (SC)

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Anne Gassel

Is a stay at home mom of two children in the public school system in the St. Louis area. She has been writing on MEW since 2012 and has been a citizen lobbyist on Common Core since 2013. In the summer she works with a group to provide Vacation Liberty School for middle schoolers to understand our country's founding principles of personal and economic freedom. Some day she would like to see a national Hippocratic oath for educators "I will remember that there is art to teaching as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the policies of those above me and the findings of data mining ventures."

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Common Core Validation Committee Non-Signer Dylan Wiliam Shares a Couple Thoughts :: Frederick M. Hess

Common Core Validation Committee Non-Signer Dylan Wiliam Shares a Couple Thoughts :: Frederick M. Hess:

Common Core Validation Committee Non-Signer Dylan Wiliam Shares a Couple Thoughts

by Frederick M. Hess  •  Sep 15, 2014 at 8:38 am
Cross-posted from Education Week

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The other week, I wrote a column flagging what I deemed to be five "half-truths" that have been repeatedly offered up by Common Core advocates. I was curious whether advocates could convince me that my concerns were baseless. On that score, the response was less compelling than I would've hoped. Several advocates eschewed the substantive points and simply declared that I'd become "anti-Common Core." My friend Mike Petrilli responded with a flurry of questions that seemed to essentially concede my criticisms, but charge that existing standards are plagued by the same shortcomings. Mike's right about that, of course, though the point is that advocates for other standards haven't promoted them as "evidence-based" or suggested they ought to be adopted on a national scale.

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Reading your AEI blog today, I can't remember if I ever shared with you my experience of being on the validation panel for the Common Core. You may have heard that I, along with Barry McGaw, James Milgram, Sandra Stotsky and I think at least one other, refused to validate the standards. Over the last few years, I have explained my reasons for my decision to anyone who asks, but I have made no public pronouncement, because I thought it would not be helpful in terms of the general debate...However, given your blog today, I thought you might be interested in why I declined to validate the standards.

On May 25, 2010, [then-director of education policy for the National Governors Association] Dane Linn wrote to all members of the Validation Committee asking them to review the final drafts of the standards and asking for a straight up or down vote by May 31st, as to whether each us would validate the standards. We were told that validating the proposals meant that we were agreeing that the standards were:

1) Reflective of the core knowledge and skills in ELA and mathematics that students need to be college- and career-ready
2) Appropriate in terms of their level of clarity and specificity

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