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Common Core
Data Mining our Kids
Data Mining / Enormous Data Collection
In 1974 the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act" was created to protect the information over children from beign shared. It was not allowed to be shared or viewed unless a parent gave consent. In 2011, without congressional approval, the Obama administration changed the regulation to allow sharing information
Enormous Data Collection
There are over 400 points of data planned to be collected on our children – including biometrics, finger prints, iris scans, DNA, personal and private information on parents’ salaries, religion, political persuasion, food diaries, etc. What will they do with this data? Will this be used for the government to determine what kind of a job they can have or if they are able to go on to higher education as in other totalitarian countries?
- 1974 FERPA (Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act) /2011 the Obama and the FDOE (by executive order) administration changed the regulations to exceed the agency’s statutory authority and thus allowing them to collect and share invasive data on students and teachers wtihout parental consent.
- Over 400 data points will be tracked and shared (biometrics, health records, DNA, personal and private information on parents’ salaries, discipline records, finger prints, iris scans, eye movement, faical expression, posture, (response to stress during tests) religion, political persuasion, food diaries, etc.
Over 400 points of data planned to be collected on our children? – Why? What will they do with this data? Will this be used for the government to determine what kind of a job they can have or if they are able to go on to higher education as in other totalitarian countries?
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Sample from over 400 Data Points recommended for SLDS
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Born Outside of the U.S.
Birthdate
Bus Route ID
Bus Stop Arrival Time
Career Objectives
Citizenship Status
City of Birth
Class Attendance Status
Class Rank
Days Truant
Death Cause
Death Date
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Developmental Delay
Dialect Name
Diploma/Credential Awarded
Discontinuing Schooling Reason
Disease, Illness, Health Conditions
Distance From Home to School
Dwelling Arrangement
Economic Disadvantage Status
Electronic Mail Address
Family Income Range
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Family Perceptions of the Impact of Early Intervention Services on the Child
Family Public Assistance Status
Federal Program Participant Status
Immunization Date
Insurance Coverage
IP Address
Nickname
Non-school Activity Description
Religious Affiliation
Social Security Number
Voting Status
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Chief of Staff Joanne Weiss at the Dept. of Education has been publicly quoted saying that
“data-mashing” is a good idea.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gives speeches
calling for ”more robust data.”
And at the recent White House data collection meeting, the CEO of eScholar stated that
without Common Core tests being “the glue” for open data, this data movement would be impossible
(More at What is Common Core)
- Feb. 5, 2013 Shared Learning Collaborative changed its name to InBloom - Data Mining company funded in part by ... GUESS WHO? Bill Gates. Headquarters will be in Atlanta, GA. But not to worry ... InBloom was set up as a non-profit to keep special interests at bay.
- The Shared Learning Collaborative, which receives significant support from the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, is developing a project called the Shared Learning Infrastructure. It was originally started by the CCSSO. The SLI provices a data warehous in the cloud for all kinds of student data and links that data, throughout Common Core Standards, to digital educational content.
- News Corp. purchased edTech startup Wireless Generaton for $360 million in late 2010. Rupert Murdoch said of technoloty's potential to transform learning: "When it comes to K - 12 education, we see a $500 billion sector in the U.S. alone tha tis waiting esperately to be transformed by big breakthroughts that extend the reach of a great teaching."
The FDOE has asked for intrusive data collection to be gathered on the students as they are taking the tests. They have even put out a book called
"Promoting Grit, Tenacity, Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century"
"Promotion Grit" states that psychological resources such as academic mindsets (attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors) are "teachable" and "malleable".
Download PDF of "Promotion Grit" HERE
This monitoring of behavior will be used to measure a child’s reaction to authority, their ability to “get along”.
So ... what happens if a child shows frustration, or a measure of aggression, or has an outgoing personality? What about a child that is very quiet, shy, or introverted?
Are they going to be "teachable" and "malleable"?
And, what is it that they think these children should be molded into?
"Promoting Grit" (document below), states that psychological resources such as academic mindsets (attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors) are "teachable and malleable".
This is right from this document:
“In national policy, there is increasing attention on 21st- century competiencies (which encompass a range of non-cognitive factors, including grit) and persistence is now part of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
- One of the measurements mentioned is: Behavioral Task performance (digital Measurements – MRI, facial expression camera, posture analysis seat, pressure mouse, wireless skin conductance sensor [lie detector?])
In "Promoting Grit" are the photos and infomation describing "facial expression cameras, posture analasis seats, the pressure mouse, wireless skin conductance sensors". Aren't wireless skin conductance sensors lie detectors? They also talk about what is called a "fMRI" where they actually image a child's brain (function) as their brain is functioning, while it's reading or learning, are under stress.
KIPP: Character Report Card
- KIPP: CHARACTER Report Card ("Knowledge Is Power Program") - a Charter School Organization. Some of their tactics are questionable.
The report card has six teachers in the room to score children on zest, grit and self-control, self-control interpersonal, keeps his temper in check, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity.
Data Collection on Teachers
Teachers Evaluated by Students
"The Data Quality Campaign for teacher data is currently tracking whether a state has a teacher of record definition; whether the state’s teacher-student data link can connect more than one educator to a particular student in a given course, the state has in place a process for teacher roster verification; and whether the state collects data linking teachers and students multiple times per year. Florida said “yes” to all four questions. This means that teachers are being held accountable for the tests results for individual students on standards they had little or no involvement in developing and must teach them regardless of their professional opinion on whether they are helpful for children and how they should be taught."
A part of common core will be children evaluating their teachers' performance. There's been a survey done (in Tennessee at the Farragut school) under the guise of the "Tripod Project". This program, too, is funded by Bill Gates.
In a letter from a parent was a picture of a letter that she got asking her child to participate in a survey.
Some of the questions on this survey are person perspectives on what your child is experiencing at school and in the classroom. Family background, general demograph information, and issues related to youth, culture and racial and ethnic identity, classroom climate, the way that students treat one another, and classroom behavior. (This is Tennessee a Farah got school district
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Additional Articles on Data Collection
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More available data - "Data Backpacks" and portfolios.
"In education we need these daily doses of common descriptive data and we haven't even articulated yet how many ways we can use it," ... "You don't want to just say, 'Here, I have a [state longitudinal data system], come on, use it for whatever'."
Nancy J. Smith, a principal consultant for the Vienna, Va.-based DataSmith Solutions
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Orwellian Nightmare Data Mining Your Kids
“More robust data systems and a new generation of assessments can assist teachers and principals to improve their practices and tailor their instruction in ways that were largely unthinkable in the past,”
Arne Duncan continued.
“We have advanced data systems that we are constantly improving.”
Duncan wants other governments and the UN to follow the Obama administration’s lead on data gathering, he explained. (More)
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Common Core - Education without Representation
Jenni White of ROPE (Restore Oklahoma Public Education) states that the only way to get free of this federal data collection invasion is to put political pressure on our governors to give that ARRA money back. As long as we keep it, we are in data collection chains by the federal government; also, our increasing buy-in to common core exacerbates the educational tech scam on the corporate side. Dept. of Education infringements upon state law and freedom are explained in the white paper by Jenni White entitled:
“Analysis of Recent Education Reforms and the Resulting Impact on Student Privacy”
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More:
Analysis of Recent Education Reforms and the Resulting Impact on Student Privacy
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