Precarity Dispatches
#peepingPearson‥#pearsoniswatching‥#Pearson1984—from #EdBlogNet & social media #tbats to mainstream news
…intro, links & #adjunct connection
Have you heard about that Pearson kerfuffle in NJ? It’s all over the news ans social media. Bob Braun, retired teacher, former journalist and blogger in Public Education Bloggers Network, blew the whistle on it when mainstream media couldn’t be bothered. Mysteriously (or perhaps not), Bob Braun’s page camun under DoS attack not long after posting and then was suspended. He posted his copy to Facebook, other blogs re-posted and social media took off.By March 14, the Washington Post and BuzzFeed picked it up. Links run from then through today, March 18. The adjunct / higher ed connection should be obvious: corporatization and privatization of public education. Then there are the lessons in cooperation and rapid response that we could learn from.- Bob Braun’s Ledger ~ where the story broke
- Pearson’s Yellow Brick Road | parentingthecore blog post by Sarah Blaine
- Pearson, PARCC, Privacy, Surveillance & Trust — Medium, by Audrey Watters
NEWS LINKS
State to explain PARCC security to Assembly panel
NJ.com - Mar 18, 2015. TRENTON — New Jersey’s Department of Education will send representatives to Thursday’s Assembly Education Committee meeting to explain how potential PARCC test security breaches are handled. The department announced today that “appropriate …
The Powerful, Enforced Silence Around Standardized Testing
Huffington Post - Mar 18, 2015. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing takes more than ten hours for students in grades 3 through 8 to complete. These students have spent countless hours preparing for the PARCC tests, and they have heard that …
When Does PARCC Test Security Turn Into Spying On Kids?
Forbes - Mar 18, 2015. Pssst…I know the answer to the first question on the third-grade PARCC math test. My inside source couldn’t wait to spill those beans as soon as he jumped into his mother’s mini-van in the pick-up line outside his New Jersey elementary school earlier this …
Bits | Pearson Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts
New York Times (blog) - Mar 17, 2015. That is the question parents across the country have been asking on Twitter and on blog posts since they learned that the publishing giant Pearson Education has been monitoring social media to identify students who might be leaking information about …
Pearson’s Intellectual Property — Why Is This Even a Thing?
Huffington Post - Mar 17, 2015. Bob Braun, a five-decade veteran of the Newark Star Ledger and currently an independent blogger, blew up a portion of the internet on Friday by reporting that Pearson, the international education giant responsible for the PARCC examinations currently …
Search for PARCC leaks raises new questions about test security measures
NJ.com - Mar 17, 2015. When New Jersey switched to computerized standardized tests this school year it eliminated concerns about the security of test booklets and whether an erasure mark signified an honest mistake or an attempt to cheat. But with new tests come new test …
State Officials, Testing Firm Asked to Explain ‘Disturbing’ Monitoring of Tweets
Philly.com (blog) - Mar 17, 2015. Calling the practice “disturbing,” the chairman of the state Assembly’s education committee has asked representatives of Pearson and the state Department of Education to explain their monitoring of student social media account.
Students’ social media pages are monitored during PARCC exams, N.J. …
NJ.com - Mar 16, 2015. WATCHUNG — A superintendent was taken aback after learning Pearson, a giant educational publisher and testing company, is monitoring her students’ social media pages during PARCC testing. Elizabeth C. Jewett, superintendent of Watchung Hills …
Pearson Common Core Test Monitoring Is a Free Speech Issue – Not a Privacy …
U.S. News & World Report - Mar 16, 2015. Monitoring social media accounts doesn’t break the law, but punishing students for their tweets might. Sixth grader Monica Dinh takes part in a practice session while preparing for the PARCC tests. Parents are concerned that their students’ social media …
Spying on students? Education publisher Pearson monitoring social media activity
Fox News - Mar 16, 2015. A copy of the leaked letter penned by a NJ school superintendent over Pearson’s monitoring of students’ social media. (bobbraunsledger.com). One of the world’s largest education publishing companies, which crafted the standardized tests for the new …
Report: Education Company Monitoring Social Media Accounts Of Common …
CBS Local - Mar 15, 2015. WARREN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — An education company running Common Core testing is monitoring students’ social media accounts for security breaches, according to reports. The New Jersey Department of Education reportedly told school officials at …
Pearson monitoring social media for security during PARCC testing
Washington Post (blog) - Mar 14, 2015. Updated with response from superintendent; Pearson revises statement to make clear it is working with PARCC states; more about social media monitoring during testing. Pearson, the world’s largest education company, is monitoring social media during…
Education Giant Pearson Monitors Students’ Social Media Accounts While Testing
BuzzFeed - Mar 14, 2015. The world’s largest education company, Pearson, has been “monitoring” the social media accounts of students while they take their PARCC Common Core tests, journalist Bob Bruan reported on his website on Friday, calling the practice “spying.” The PARCC test is administered in several states, including New Jersey, where one superintendent wrote a letter on March 10 to several others calling the practice “a bit disturbing.” Pearson told the Washington Post that it monitors test-takers social media accounts to make sure no one is cheating.
Pearson’s student social media snooping during PARCC testing questioned
Education Dive - Mar 18, 2015. After a New Jersey student at Watchung Hills Regional High School tweeted about the PARCC exam, it came out that Pearson, the company that authored the test, has been monitoring social media references to the exam. Superintendent Elizabeth Jewett …
PARCC tests topic of Easthampton discussion
MassLive.com - Mar 18, 2015. Tonight’s meeting will be held at the Public Safety Complex at 34 Payson Ave. (Mary Serreze photo). Print Email · Mary Serreze | Special to The Republican By Mary Serreze | Special to The Republican The Republican on March 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM, …
New furor over NJ tests as student privacy concerns raised
NorthJersey.com - Mar 17, 2015. The security of the state’s standardized tests is clashing with parents’ privacy concerns in the latest battle over the new exams. Critics accused Pearson testing company of “spying” after it alerted the state Department of Education that a student leaked a test …
Assemblyman calls for PARCC probe
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Mar 17, 2015. TRENTON – A state legislator wants an investigation into reports that a testing firm monitored social media accounts of children taking the controversial PARCC exam. Assemblyman Dave Rible, R-Monmouth, said possible monitoring by Pearson, a for-profit …
How Pearson Bungled Allegations of Spying on Kids Taking PARCC
LUCID Public Relations - Mar 17, 2015. There may exist no greater third rail in Public Relations than business activities that even remotely lead to a perception of impropriety, no matter how tangential, in dealings with children. This week, the media caught up with what groups like the “Badass …
NJ official, PARCC exam firm face questions on social media monitoring of …
NorthJersey.com - Mar 17, 2015. New Jersey’s education commissioner and the company administering new state tests have been asked to appear before an Assembly committee Thursday to respond to concerns that the company has been monitoring students on social media.
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