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STOP: Our Government Wants to Create a National Database about Everyone, Including YOUR Children by Diane Ravitch

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"Frightening news: there is a bipartisan push, funded by the Gates Foundation, to create a national database for every citizen, violating our privacy. Until now, this has been illegal. Gates and his allies want to lift the ban.   This database is about to happen; it has long been the holy grail for many policy makers, who argue that collecting data at the federal level is the only way to get an accurate view of postsecondary education. But privacy advocates, private colleges and Congressional Republicans, all of whom oppose the creation of such a database, teamed up in opposition the last time the idea was proposed, by Bush in 2005. Do you value your privacy? Do you want to stop the government and corporations from knowing everything about our lives, from cradle to grave? Read the post in its entirety and then contact Leonie Haimson of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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