Education Department Database Leaks

Joy Pullman of the Heartland Institute wrote an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner showing how education departments are now leaking confidential student information.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/education-dept.-helps-leak-students-personal-data/article/2525112

Nine states have sent dossiers on students —including names, Social Security numbers, hobbies, addresses, test scores, attendance, career goals, and attitudes about school —to a public-private database, according to Reuters. Standardized tests are beginning to incorporate psychological and behavioral assessment. Every state is also building databases to collect and share such information among agencies and companies, and the U.S. Department of Education has recently reinterpreted fe