This March, the South by Southwest Education Technology Conference in Austin, Texas unveiled an enormous database holding the personal information of millions of school-aged children currently enrolled in public schools across the country. The project, dubbed inBloom, already has the support of nine states, encompassing Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York and North Carolina, and others may soon follow suit. Funded by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, which was worth $36.4 billion dollars earlier this year, the database will enable the free sharing of public student data with private companies nationwide. What’s
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Colorado Springs, CO – An LGBT advocacy group is suing an elementary school in Colorado Springs for barring a six-year-old boy from using the girls’ restroom. The group claims that the child is being discriminated against because of his sexual orientation. The New-York-based Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay rights group, made public a letter from Kelly Dude, attorney for the Colorado Springs school district and Eagleside Elementary School. In that letter, the school’s attorney said, “The district’s decision took into account not only Coy but other students in the building, their parents
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The introduction of genetically modified foods and food ingredients into the American diet has been a smashing success for agribusiness interests and the food manufacturing companies. With the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration offering next to nothing in the way of resistance, GMOs have quickly moved into a dominant position in the corn and soybean markets in particular, and the sky appears to be the limit for an agriculture/industrial complex that is already raking it in by the billions thanks to the rise of biotechnology and the decline of more
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While homeschooling your children is mostly rewarding, there are some serious challenges to face. If you have a teen, getting her ready for college is one of those challenges. You spent hours planning, preparing, and teaching her academic subjects to get her ready for the next step in her education. You convinced a college or university to accept her in spite of your homemade transcripts. She has worked hard for years at home, learning, studying, taking tests, reading, and preparing academically for higher education. Now, the time has come to make sure that when she
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