Category Archives: Protection of Pupil Rights

“Spying on Students”: New Report Details Threats to Student Privacy

Posted on April 26, 2017 by J.R. Wilson

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a report called Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy. The report is free of incomprehensible technical jargon, making it easy to read and understand. The EFF conducted a survey on student … Continue reading →

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McGroarty Testifies Against Expanded College-Workforce Data Dossier

Posted on October 28, 2016 by The Undergroundparent

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Karen R. Effrem, MD – President, Education Liberty Watch Emmett McGroarty, director of education at the American Principles Project testified at the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) about the highly dangerous idea of creating a longitudinal higher education/workforce database. This … Continue reading →

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Hi-Tech Education vs. Student Privacy

Posted on April 12, 2016 by The Undergroundparent

PBS News Hour featured “Why digital education could be a double-edged sword” in their “Making the Grade” segment recently. Published on Apr 5, 2016 Public education is becoming increasingly digitized — these days, schools can compile everything from a student’s … Continue reading →

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Introduction to data mining our kids

Posted on February 28, 2016 by The Undergroundparent

Moms Alyson Williams, Jenni White, Alisa Ellis and Christel Swasey, of Utah and Oklahoma, chat in a Google Hangout about their concerns and experiences with government data mining children without parental consent. This also appears on Common Core: Education Without Representation.

Posted in Assessment Administration, Common Core, Data Mining / Privacy, Loss of Local Control, Protection of Pupil Rights, SLDS, State Longitudinal Data Systems, Testing / Assessments | 3 Comments

Making Big Ideas Into Small Ideas: The GOP Tendency

Posted on September 2, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the seventh in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action. Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Common Core Standards Lock Children Into an Inferior Education

Posted on August 31, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the fifth in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action. Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Public-Private Partnership: How Private Entities Developed the Common Core and Enlisted the Federal Government to Drive It Into the States

Posted on August 29, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the third in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action. Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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The Need for a Scorecard

Posted on August 28, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

This is the second in a series about the report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action. Permission has been granted for text from Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates to be published … Continue reading →

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Common Core Report Card on GOP Candidates

Posted on August 27, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

Common Core Report: Grading the 2016 GOP Candidates is a report released by American Principles in Action, ThePulse2016, and Cornerstone Policy Research Action. This report provides information about the issues and the positions or most of the major Republican candidates. … Continue reading →

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The Common Core State Standards: What are they and why should I care?

Posted on March 22, 2015 by The Undergroundparent

Here is a video presentation about the Common Core State Standards. It is loaded with information. The script of the video is provided below so you can easily read the sections that are of most interest to you. Hot links … Continue reading →

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