Mining Student Data
Stories from KUOW and Politico (highly recommended) and information I learned about what's in a TFA contract today about student data. One is the KUOW piece about ConnectEDU and SPS . It fleshed out what I had reported and had a couple of interesting comments. Again: For the past three years, the school district has uploaded middle and high school students’ names, grades, addresses and demographic data to the website ConnectEDU. Students were able to add additional information, such as where they’d like to go to college, and how much they want to spend on tuition. The ConnectEDU privacy policy said that if the company was ever sold, users would be notified and allowed to remove all personally identifiable data from the site. After learning that the company had filed for bankruptcy and was looking to sell, Rahm said the district tried to end its contract with ConnectEDU and have all student data on the site deleted. The company’s lawyers ...