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Data-Mining Faces New Privacy Rules

The new policies aim to close loopholes that the Federal Trade Commission says too often allow websites and online services to gather personal information improperly from students. (February 6, 2013)

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The majority of winners in the $4 billion Race to the Top competition are struggling with evaluation and data systems, the U.S. Education Department's second annual progress report on the program says.
February 1, 2013 - Education Week
Some 78 percent of the class of 2010 got a high school diploma, says a new federal report, while the dropout rate fell to 3.4 percent.
January 29, 2013 - Education Week
An Education Week review of state data suggests the number of teachers at the elementary level outstrips available jobs.
January 22, 2013 | Updated: February 13, 2013 - Education Week
Veteran teacher Elizabeth Stein shares tips on bringing more meaning and value to data-driven instruction.
January 22, 2013 - Teacher
Value-added evaluation does not meet scientific standards, when looked at from a medical vantage, R. Barker Bausell writes.
January 15, 2013 - Education Week
While the two nations ran even in math, Finland maintained the lead in science and reading even though some U.S. states finished ahead.
January 8, 2013 - Education Week
To learn more about educators’ views on school climate, discipline, and safety, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center conducted an online survey of teachers and school administrators.
January 4, 2013 - Education Week
Search student expulsion and suspension information for more than 72,000 schools nationwide. The data set includes only students without disabilities. Schools with obvious data-entry errors—specifically, those with results that showed they suspended or expelled more students than they enrolled—were excluded.
January 4, 2013 - Education Week
Data collected by the Education Department show wide variations in how schools use out-of-school suspension and expulsion.
January 4, 2013 - Quality Counts
An Education Week analysis of data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education found that some schools suspended or expelled all or nearly all students without disabilities at least once during the 2009-10 school year, while others rarely used these forms of discipline.
January 4, 2013 - Education Week

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