Student Data Tied To Common Core Off-Limits To Parents
The data collected about children is not just limited to their educational progress, but also psychological information collected through teacher observations, classroom videos, digital programs, and tests – like the Common Core-aligned PARCC and SBAC assessments – that are taken online.
For example, as Donna Garner of Education Views observed in May, schools that have adopted the Common Core standards in various parts of the U.S. have begun to require students (without parental knowledge) to take the Pearson Clinical Tests. Teachers, using the BASC-2 test form, enter their own personal observations about their students directly into the Pearson database.
Unfortunately, the child data collection issue is even more expansive.
Despite the efforts of lawmakers like Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), a bill to reauthorize federal funding for newborn DNA data collection passed the U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote on June 26.
As Heartland reports, the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 currently mandates the collection of blood samples from every newborn baby by heel prick. The blood samples are then screened for diseases.
Though many states provide for disposing of the samples after testing, the bill that was just approved by the House would collect each newborn’s DNA in federal databases for subsequent medical research and, in Rhode Island, for the purpose of tracking the child’s school progress.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/12/Student-Data-Tied-To-Common-Core-Off-Limits-To-Parents
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