PSAT/SAT day is Wednesday April 5 this week in NY schools and many other public schools in states around the country. These exams are now required in at least 9 states, but are given in many more states and districts, including NYC.
The College Board is unethically if not illegally amassing a huge amount of personal student information through the administration of these exams and selling it for a profit (though they call it “licensing” the names) at 42 cents per student. They are providing the information to a range of undisclosed institutions and companies, including reportedly the Department of Defense to help them recruit for the military.
If your child or your students are taking one of these tests, tell them to enter only the minimal info: name, address, gender and date of birth.
Read this post by privacy advocate Cheri Kiesecker:
Leonie Haimson responded to the CB claims in the above:
https://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2017/03/more-on-college-boards-evasions-and.html
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Parents should know that Bill Gates has been doing everything in his power to demolish privacy. The College Board wants the right to use a unique identifier for every student, preferably the SS number, but a school ID in combination with date of birth demolishes privacy. The marketing of information about students is not limited to the one outfit that the College Board mentions. That outfit can then resell the information many times over, with profits for getting messages to targeted individuals–e.g. an episcopalian student who may want a career in the military doing IT work. The info that the College Board extracts fuels marketing aimed at specific students. Don’t feed the beast. Gates hopes to have one national database, with information about every student, from birth to about 10 years after completing post-secondary education, including workplace records.
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When I have told others about this violation, they are shocked. People don’t know that they are being HAD…big time.
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The most important thing to remember:
David Coleman (CEO of the College Board) doesn’t give a $&!T what you feel or think. Just about how much he personally can make off of your child. He rakes in over $700k in salary each year.
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David Coleman is a jerk. He’s the GO-FER for small bucks…though as a lowly teacher that would be for a boon. I could actually pay my bills. I had to take early retirement. I just could NOT put up with the nonsense and egads being badgered for NOT supporting CC and tests. Now that was ridiculous.
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Reblogged this on The Most Revolutionary Act and commented:
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The College Board is illegally selling student data for 42 cents per student.
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Yes Laura ” Gates hopes to have one national database, with information about every student, from birth to about 10 years after completing post-secondary education, including workplace records.”
What happens when that information feeds the robots of tomorrow while the children of today suffer this bot teacher education they want to shove down our throats?
How long before the decisions to eliminate people won’t matter because people will be so conditioned to “viewing” robots as human that eliminating useless eaters is normalized?
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They also sell quack education malpractices.
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How is this different from the
Student Search Service which the College Board has been selling names for years?
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