inBloom Student and Teacher Data Mining "Sandbox" Segment

 

inBloom is bringing together states and districts from across the country to improve and align technology systems and teaching resources. There is no reason why each state should have to tackle this challenge alone – together, we have the potential to change the way education works for students on a large scale.

- Gene Wilhoit, CEO of the Center for Innovation in Education and former Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers...from our vision at inBloom

The real reason for Common Core?  It's for the data.  The data will change the way education works for students.  It's easier to track human capital in an educational system that's aligned with other states.  Think inventory tracking and control and you've discovered the ultimate goal of Common Core.  Think about inBloom's vision: personal path, common ground

How can a student have a personal path within a common system?

What does inBloom want to know about your student to provide this personal path within a prescribed system of education? This article has a screenshot from inBloom showing partial data sets. From nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot:

 

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 inBloom's student and teacher data screenshots

Thanks to our work and the advocacy of parents and teachers across the city, many parents now know that inBloom, Inc, the Gates-funded organization, is being paid to hold and share student (and teacher) personally-identifiable data with for-profit vendors (read more about inBloom here). However, most people don't know how personal and confidential this data is. 

InBloom, Inc. has a sample "sandbox" segment on their web page meant "for developers" to show them what data will be made available to them to build their software "tools" around.

Under the “medium” data set, we find that student names, addresses, emails, latitude and longitude of their homes and schools, phone numbers, test scores, grades, race, economic status, photos, detailed disciplinary records, special education services and medical conditions are all included. 

Check out the screen shots below to see more. 

Name, address, email, student picture, race, economic status, free lunch status, race, language needs and whether the child is in foster care or not.

 Detailed disciplinary record, including whether the incident was reported to the police and whether there was a weapon involved.  This sort of record if leaked out could seriously damage a student's prospects whether or not any arrest or conviction ever occurred. . 

Whether the student has a developmental delay, is in athletics, or has a medical condition or not. Even specific enough to ask what the child's learning style is. 

 Also collecting teacher data, including name, address, latitude and longitude of teacher's home.

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Is all this information necessary (or legal) for the government to gather on children and supply to private companies?  What does this have to do with education?  Where is the parental consent for this information to be gathered and disseminated?  Why are teachers home addresses, including latitude and longitude of their home, entered in such a database? 

What happens if this "sandbox" is a sandbox in which a parent/child doesn't want to be placed?  What happens if the "personal path" is indeed not in the "common ground" chosen by the NGA and CCSSO?  inBloom would implode because there isn't any way to track the human capital.

As we asked yesterday, where is the "Do-Not-Track Common Core Data Act of 2013"?  Why aren't politicians concerned about inBloom's invasive data mining disguised as helping children and teachers?