 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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| Who is Stockpiling & Sharing Private Info. About NY Students »blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca···ring.php from »boingboing.net/2013/04/04/americ···9-s.html
"inBloom, a Gates-funded non-profit to harness data to improve grade school education, has partnered with New York and eight other states to encourage the development of apps to "further education" by using intimate data about students, without parental consent and with no ability for parents to opt out..."
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kudos:3 | Which file in the InBloom Schema did the first example come from that had all the damming information? The schema is posted here:
»www.inbloom.org/sandbox
The examples given all seem to come from »www.ed-fi.org/ which isn't a Gates funded organization.
quote:
Who created and owns the Ed-Fi solution?
The Ed-Fi solution was developed by the Ed-Fi Alliance with funding from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Today, the Ed-Fi Alliance owns and licenses the Ed-Fi solution.
Once again the media etc might have gotten the facts wrong, but hey don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
Blake
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Perhaps it's as simple as Ed-Fi being just a vehicle for collecting, storing, and disseminating student data, whereas inBloom creates software apps to apply or make use of that (or other) data. The point being that the kind of student data being tossed around (and potentially sliced/diced by corporate interests) is what matters to parents.
I believe what is upsetting those parents is that student attendence in schools, hence registration and the ongoing collection of detailed student information, is legally required in New York State. Parents are therefore justifiably concerned about how that information (forever linked to their child's name) is used. Yet the NYSED spokesman evinces a rather arrogant attitude: quote:
"I'm not sure there's consent involved. This is regular student information that when parents register a child for school. They give up," Tom Dunn, spokesman for NYSED tells the Voice.
If this comment is typical of how the school officials have been viewing a parent's right to protect their child's privacy, it's understandable that there's a conflict brewing.
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