Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Repeal Ban on Student Data Collection
A bipartisan group of members of Congress have introduced a bill that would overturn a federal ban on collecting data on the education and employment outcomes of college students.
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Donald Trump: ‘I Would Close the Loopholes’ in Federal Privacy Law To Prevent Student Data Mining
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says that, if elected, he would close the loopholes in the federal privacy law to ensure that students’ personal information remained private.
Louisiana News Editorial Board Slams Bobby Jindal’s Stance on Common Core
The NOLA.com/Times-Picayune editorial board is quoting a big business and industry group in Louisiana to rail against Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) recent executive order to protect parents and school districts from consequences of opting out of the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests.
Jeb Bush Gives ‘Impassioned’ Speech to Defend his Support for Common Core
As Republicans of all stripes and the main-stream media are predicting that Jeb Bush’s support for the Common Core standards will be among his greatest obstacles to a potential 2016 GOP nomination, Bush himself went off-script during remarks at the Detroit Economic Club Wednesday, emotionally defending the highly unpopular education initiative and his own education reform record.
After Luring States into Student Data Collection Systems, Obama ‘Campaigns’ for Tough Data Privacy
After enticing states into a binding promise to develop their student databases, President Obama now says he will call for legislation that will protect students from commercial data mining.
