Fr. Joe Shimek spoke for Abp. Listecki recently, defending the "standards" of Common Core. There will be no debate, of course, if your chilluns are in an Archdiocesan school.
But for some reason or other, Fr. Joe didn't mention this:
...Assessing Common Core is inextricably tied to the big business of data
collection and data mining. States that took the Race to the Top bribes
in exchange for adopting Common Core must now comply with the edutech
requirements of two private testing conglomerates, the Partnership for
the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers or the Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium. Common Core states also agreed to expand
existing statewide longitudinal database systems that contain sensitive
student data from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education.
... “Before our eyes,” Estrada and Tipton warn, “a ‘national database’ is
being created in which every public school student’s personal
information and academic history will be stored.” It’s no laughing
matter.
It's not just the Feds who will have all sorts of info on the kiddies!!
Just this week, SafeGov.org, a computer privacy watchdog group,
reported that Google has admitted in recent court filings that “it data
mines student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even
when ad serving in school is turned off.” The newly exposed documents
explicitly “confirm in a sworn public court declaration that even when
ad serving is turned off in Google Apps for Education (GAFE), the
contents of users’ emails are still being scanned by Google in order to
target ads at those same users when they use the web outside of Google
Apps (for example, when watching a YouTube video, conducting a Google
search, or viewing a web page that contains a Google+ or DoubleClick
cookie).”
S'pose that Archdiocesan students will have a "K" for Katholische next to their names?
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