Alex Nester of the Washington Free Beacon documents a disturbing policy change from the Biden administration. The Department of Education wants to roll back a Trump-era effort to collect data…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a freshman U.S. senator’s high-profile actions in the tech field. If you were looking for a David to the multi-billion-dollar,…
Lots and lots has been written and debated about “income inequality.” Our friends on the Left believe government should intervene via mandates on employers and higher tax rates on high…
With that catchy epigram, Megan McArdle neatly summarizes the business model that supports online enterprises like Facebook and explains why it’s unrealistic to expect them to stop collecting data about their users.
Joy Pullman explains in a column for The Federalist website why a higher education data-collection proposal that’s attracting support from right-of-center thinkers is off the mark. Some of my right-leaning…
Earlier this month, I wrote on the invasive health assessment form used for 5 year old kindergarten students. Last week the New Hanover School Board got a presentation from the…
Jenna Ashley Robinson reports for Carolina Journal Online about concerns surrounding a new data collection program involving students’ information. John Hood’s Daily Journal probes politicians’ job approval ratings.
The NC Department of Public Instruction has been collecting student information since the late 1990s. This summer, state education officials unveiled North Carolina’s newest student information system, PowerSchool. PowerSchool replaces…
After yesterday’s release-retraction-release of education job loss statistics from the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the usual suspects lined up to blame Republican legislators for “draconian” cuts to public…
Facebook has a mass following, now according to the New York Times, it is a good place to gather data on society. By the way, the John Locke Foundation…
As far as I can see, there’s been no elaboration from either Guilford County Schools or the local media as to why GCS’ graduation rate jumped from 63 to 74…