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Student Privacy

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Robbins Advocates for Student Privacy Before U.S. House Education Committee

Jane Robbins, a senior fellow with American Principles Project, was one of four witnesses for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce‘s hearing on “Evidence-Based Policymaking and the Future of Education.”

U.S. Senate Passes No Child Left Behind Rewrite

The U.S. Senate passed 81 to 17 S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, a bill advocates says “fixes” No Child Left Behind while critics say it isn’t enough.

Study Finds that New Technology, Relaxation of Protections Threaten Student Privacy

PIoneer Institute published “Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing” written by Emmett McGroarty, Joy Pullmann and Jane Robbins.

School Funding Trumps Student Privacy

The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, TX decided to allow school funding to trump student privacy when starting their tracking program.

Student Privacy & P.E. Monitors in Grundy Center

Grundy Center Community Schools have used Polar Monitors in their P.E. classes for 10 years and have collected some student data over that period of time. With the new U.S. Department of Education regulations weakening the FERPA law what’s to stop them from collecting more?

Big Brother Is Watching Your Kids

Emmett McGroarty, the executive director of the Preserve Innocence Initiative of American…

Arne Duncan and DOE’s End Around Congress to Change FERPA, Invade Student Privacy

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the educrats at the U.S. Department of…