There is great potential for the appropriate use of student data to bring positive outcomes for our children and students. However, the use of student data also brings with it immense responsibility and great risk to the safety and civil liberties of children and their families.
Jennifer Jacobsen
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A tough, but correct, budget decision on Connecticut charter schools
In a harrowing budget season, the legislature’s Appropriations Committee decided to remove a $4 million budget allotment for two new charter schools in our state. What must have been a difficult decision is also a prudent one on our legislators’ part, as our precious resources this budget cycle should go to those schools and programs that serve all students and which serve those children in the greatest need of our support.
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Connecticut schools need comprehensive protection of student data privacy
The issue of student data privacy is one of national concern. In schools, on college campuses and elsewhere information that is collected on students and accessed by outside parties has grown substantially in recent years without the proper safeguards or penalties for misuse. It is time for Connecticut to pass a comprehensive student data privacy bill.
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Op-Ed: Parent explains why she can’t allow her children to take the SBAC test
After doing her own research for months, a Fairfield parent explains why she has no confidence in the state’s use of the SBAC test or that student privacy is adequately protected in the use of the test data. She has elected for her children not to take the test.
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Op-Ed: Paint-by-numbers education yields paint-by-numbers results
Education reform in Connecticut has a paint-by-numbers quality that, while stifling creativity and individualism, produces paint-by-numbers results. It is time to think more clearly about what is motivating this so-called reform and who stands to gain from it.
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Op-Ed: Paint-by-numbers education yields paint-by-numbers results
Education reform in Connecticut has a paint-by-numbers quality that, while stifling creativity and individualism, produces paint-by-numbers results. It is time to think more clearly about what is motivating this so-called reform and who stands to gain from it.