Achieve.org, led by Michael Cohen, offers a webpapage on data mining our students, called P20 data systems:
Originally Posted by P20 data systems
States must collect, coordinate, and use K-12 and postsecondary data to track and improve the readiness of graduates to succeed in college and the workplace.
Note that this data mining of ALL students is focused on potentially benefiting the relatively smaller number of students who are either not graduating from high school, or who are flushed along through the system and graduate without basic skills.

Related webpages include:
- Creating a P-20 Continuum of Actionable Academic Indicators of Student Readiness,
- Next Generation State Data System: What is Needed to Support the Next Generation Assessment and Accountability Systems,
- Race to the Top: Accelerating College and Career Readiness in States - P-20 Longitudinal Data,
- Who Benefits from P-20 Data (further link to Data Quality Campaign). Notice that parents and students are claimed to benefit from this intrusive, invasive data mining in the following way:
Originally Posted by Who Benefits from P-20 Data
to monitor academic progress and inform decisions about courses and programs
Is there ANY parent or student out there who believes that a P-20 data collection and reporting system is necessary to do this?

The "Public Reporting" and "Accountability" webpages may also be of interest.


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