Parents and legislators share a concern that inappropriate material might make its…
The story of California’s Assembly Bill 114 is an example of how legislation and state practices can obscure the data available and hinder attempts to help students with mental health conditions. The federal government issues grant…
To be accountable is to be answerable; to be required to justify one’s actions; to be called to account. That reckoning could take the form of an explanation; in an obsolete usage of the word — obsolete according to the Oxford English Dictionary at…
A brief recap of the first 3 months of student data & privacy related news in 2016.
President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December, 2015…
Should efforts to promote equity in schooling and criminal justice focus on economic class or race or both? Data shows stark disparity between the haves and the have nots, and as a result, there has been a shift from discussion of race…
In recent years, the influx of learning technologies and management systems in schools has led to an expansion of educational data collection. Many school districts are shifting toward cloud-based networking for data storage and hundreds of online resources are used in…
● Educationally attained mobility is built on the Bootstraps Myth
● Digital Media and Pockets of Activism and Innovation allow for small collective gains but not enough to counter for structural racism and discrimination