Keep Your Hands Off My Womb, Collectivist Data-Mongers
At the behest of the federal government, and despite laws and President Obama’s recent posturing against this, states have been busy creating data systems to track “their” citizens’ entire lives....
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Surveillance Isn’t The Solution To America’s College Woes
Some of my right-leaning heroes (insofar as politicians are worthy of being heroes) are ganging up with other politicos to support the dull-sounding but pernicious policy of a federal unit-record...
View ArticleThe Price Of College Should Not Be Lifelong Surveillance
A source tells me Sen. Marco Rubio’s office is not fazed by the national surveillance and central-planning implications of the bill he’s cosponsoring to lift the federal ban on a national student data...
View ArticleDate-onomics: It’s Not You, It’s The Data
“It’s not that he’s just not that into you—it’s that there’s not enough of him.” This is the premise of Jon Birger’s book, Date-onomics. The author and journalist joined the Federalist Radio Hour today...
View Article7 Things Betsy DeVos Needs To Do Immediately After She Becomes Education...
Absent something really strange—and 2016 has been full of that, for sure—billionaire Betsy DeVos will become Donald Trump’s initial secretary of education come hearings in January. Teachers unions and...
View Article8 Questions To Ask Betsy DeVos At Her Confirmation Hearing
Trump education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos is slated to begin her confirmation hearings on January 11. Republicans scheduled a hearing for secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson the same day to...
View ArticleWhy ‘Competency-Based Education’ Will Deepen America’s Education Crisis
Despite his failure at presidential politics, Jeb Bush emerged from the recent campaign with perhaps unparalleled influence on K-12 education. Minions with ties to his Florida-based, Bill Gates-funded...
View ArticleBill Would Surveil Americans For Life By Unifying Government Databases
The new movie “The Circle” demonstrates how a laudable concept—transparency—can be corrupted for very bad ends. In a speech before a millennial audience, techno-billionaire Eamon Bailey (played by Tom...
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These 3 Student Data Bills Could Ruin Your Kid’s Life
For years, I researched and wrote about the State Longitudinal Database Systems (SLDS) here in Oklahoma and across the nation (here, here and here), warning that these ill-advised legislative efforts...
View Article12 Reasons Congress Shouldn’t Make Lifelong Surveillance The Price Of...
It’s amazing how congressional Republicans have been singularly unable, since winning the White House and both houses of Congress, to advance any major legislative priorities for their voters, but...
View ArticleKeep Your Hands Off My Womb, Collectivist Data-Mongers
When companies collect Big Data on customers, government will view those databases as an irresistible temptation to further its will to control society.
View ArticleSurveillance Isn’t The Solution To America’s College Woes
Congressional GOP leaders need to stop drinking the planned economy Kool-Aid, because it's leading us another step closer to China's surveillance state.
View ArticleThe Price Of College Should Not Be Lifelong Surveillance
Sorry, AEI: More government intervention is not the answer to the college cost problems government intervention has created.
View ArticleDate-onomics: It’s Not You, It’s The Data
In Date-onomics, Jon Birger uses data to explore the dating and marriage dilemmas that single, college-educated women face.
View Article7 Things Betsy DeVos Needs To Do Immediately After She Becomes Education...
No objective data finds that a single major federal program has had any effect on any of its targeted outcomes. This ought to give Betsy DeVos some humility about her position.
View Article8 Questions To Ask Betsy DeVos At Her Confirmation Hearing
Given all the DeVos money floating around Washington, how likely are Republicans to ask some fair but critical questions about a woman who would oversee some $70 billion annually and 5,000 public...
View ArticleWhy ‘Competency-Based Education’ Will Deepen America’s Education Crisis
Do we really want a society in which every action a child takes from K-12 is incorporated into an economic planning algorithm that may control the rest of his life?
View ArticleBill Would Surveil Americans For Life By Unifying Government Databases
A federal student unit-record system would enable the government to collect personally identifiable information on college students and link that data to lifelong workforce data.
View ArticleThese 3 Student Data Bills Could Ruin Your Kid’s Life
Sorry, but I don’t happen to believe that lifelong surveillance and surveillance-based manipulation of my choices should be the price of a public education.
View Article12 Reasons Congress Shouldn’t Make Lifelong Surveillance The Price Of...
Republican leaders are sponsoring three bills that would expand the U.S. surveillance state under the guise of improving education and government efficiency.
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