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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/w...breaches-during-parcc-testing/

So Pearson is monitoring Twitter, and that's an invasion of privacy? Because there is an expectation of privacy for tweets? The things I learn.

PP who posted the Valerie Strauss article -- thanks, that brings a lot more clarity!

And I agree with the other PP quoted above; Pearson can monitor Twitter all they like*. What's concerning to me here is that they were able to connect a HS student's Twitter account with the student's school and testing supervisor. Pearson can monitor Twitter, and Pearson is authorized by the NJDOE to collect student data for the purposes of administering the test. But I can't imagine that they are authorized to use student data act on their social media data. How did they know which school the student attended?

I mean, I think it's *creepy* that they are monitoring kids' accounts, but I don't think it's *illegal* -- and if the kid is under 13, then the fault lies with Twitter not with Pearson, actually.

BINGO. That's the creep factor here - that they matched up the kid's tweet with all the other data they'd collected from the schools, and used it to put a disciplinary process into motion. Yuck, yuck, yuck. No matter how you feel about testing/common core/etc, I hope we can all agree that private companies should not be gathering our children's data like this. The contracts should have strict limits on what data they can collect and how they can use it, and when it has to be destroyed.[/quote]

That may be a creep factor...if it were true and you have no idea if that is what was done to identify the student. For all you know, the student herself had enough personal details on her twitter account to easily identify her. Kids aren't too smart about protecting their privacy on the internet.

So what we have is an 8 page thread driven by one OP (who likes to call herself 'we') filled with little factual information and a link that mentions that Pearson is monitoring public social media accounts that mention the PARCC (which is not spying by any definition) to ensure the integrity of the new test and protect against student cheating. Oh, and there is no mention of Pearson wanting schools to punish anyone.

Much ado about nothing from the same energetic anti CC poster who knows very little about CC.[/quote]

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