The Business of Badging and Predicting Children’s Futures
Dear schools and parents, forget grades, we’ll soon have corporate sponsors and badges to label your kids, help predict their workforce or college future. Take a look at the […]
View ArticleSorting Coloradoans like shoes: “by size, shape, and color.” Pilot starts in...
(The sorting people like shoes thing, yes, that’s part of a quote. Scroll down to see the whole thing.) Workforce pathways and digital workforce credentials in k-12 education are all the rage. […]
View ArticleBreaking laws or breaking children? A list of data and the laws.
Are secret algorithms and mandated data collection violating basic human rights and existing law? A list of each: data and law. The data: Secret data collecting and predictive algorithms happening to...
View Article“No need for facts in education”– when we have the internet
In 2010, Bill Gates is quoted in this article as saying, “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the […]
View ArticleDigital Badges For Total Privatization of Education
Workforce Badging. ACT Workkeys Credentialing. Data Collection. Privatization. Trade In Services Agreements. How are these related? We have written extensively about how data gathering on students is...
View ArticleSEL Commission & Measuring Emotional Standards in Schools
SEL. What is it? Social Emotional Learning. Corporations, non-profits, government agencies and the American education system are obsessed with personal history, personality surveys, algorithms that...
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