Moreover, the ESSA legislation states that community-school pipeline services must record accurate data pertaining to the socioeconomic and public health "needs" of the community school district while also keeping track of the data pertaining to the workforce-development and socioemotional-learning "outcomes" of the district community's "lifelong" students. Section 4625 stipulates that federally granted community-school pipelines must submit to the Secretary of Education "(A) A needs assessment that identifies the academic, physical, nonacademic, health, mental health, and other needs of students, families, and community residents." In addition, clause "(C)" states that federally financed community schools must also record "annual measurements" of pipeline "outcomes" data in order "to ensure that children are . . . (iii) safe, healthy, and supported by engaged parents." Therefore, to provide an accurate assessment of such health needs and outcomes of the community residents, federally funded community schools must accurately record epidemiological data pertaining to the health of different populations living in the school district.
In brief, to keep track of annual assessments that measure the needs and outcomes of career and health services, community-school pipelines are authorized to set up public-private contracts with education-technology corporations that "upgrade" student "competency" with "adaptive-learning" software and computerized biofeedback devices that data-mine students' cognitive-behavioral and socioemotional-learning algorithms in real time for the purposes of diagnosing learning disabilities while digitally administering psychological therapies in order to medically accommodate a healthy workforce.
And there is more socioemotional-learning legislation in the mix to combine workforce training hand-in-hand with SEL conditioning. In addition to Elizabeth Warren's presidential plan for "community-based" workforce SEL, a bill titled "The Social and Emotional Learning for Families (SELF) Act" was introduced on June 14, 2018, by Democrat US Representative of Ohio, Tim Ryan, whose pitch for the law proclaims that the SELF Act will improve the workforce competence of the student body:
[t]here is growing recognition that social and emotional skills are essential for students' healthy functioning and positive academic outcomes. . . . It's why I've introduced the SELF Act which promotes and encourages collaboration between schools and parents around the development of their students' social and emotional skills. This partnership is not only beneficial to the student's long term academic success, but necessary for them to be a productive member of the American workforce [sic].
Although the SELF Act of 2018 was never passed by Congress, Ryan is still pressing forward as he has now introduced the SELF Act of 2019. Additionally, during his 2019 campaign for the US presidency, Ryan repeatedly touted his call for workforce SEL.
The Edu-Corporation as Hospital, Ed-Technology as Doctor:
Not only do community SEL schools contract with the privatized healthcare industry to apply medical science to streamline workforce conditioning for a technocratically planned economy. But public-private community SEL partnerships also open the gates for private education-technology companies to secure government contracts for data-mining students in order to "scientifically" administer hi-tech cognitive-behavioral, socioemotional, and occupational therapies to medically treat students who have learning disabilities such as ADHD.
To be sure, Elizabeth Warren has promised that her community-school reforms will " crack down on anti-competitive data mining practices by educational technology companies" by " ban[ning] the sharing, storing, and sale of student data that includes names or other information that can identify individual students." Nevertheless, notice that these reforms do not abolish student data-tracking; rather, these reforms are merely aimed at better anonymizing student data in order to improve competition between the ed-tech corporations that data-mine student learning algorithms. As a result, Warren's public-private community schools will still hire education-technology corporations to data-mine students' SEL algorithms despite her so-called "crackdown" on ed-tech Big Data.
Here's a menu of corporate leaders in the socioemotional-learning industry that are primed to be favored for public-private SEL contracts with "progressive" community schools:
 · Neurocore Behavioral Biofeedback: The corporate website of the Neurocore company states that it treats students with ADHD and other learning disabilities by providing hi-tech biofeedback therapies that utilize the operant-conditioning techniques of "positive reinforcement and repetition" to retrain students' brainwave frequencies to conduce better attention and memory spans. In particular, Neurocore's biofeedback-conditioning reprograms a student's ADHD by utilizing quantitative electroencephalography(EEG) to monitor his or her brainwave responses to video stimuli; whenever the ADHD student exhibits an undesirable brainwave response that indicates distraction, the video stimuli is halted or altered until the student exhibits a focused brainwave response that indicates concentrated attention. It should be noted that Secretary Betsy DeVos sat on Neurocore's board of directors until she was confirmed to the office of US Secretary of Education. Although DeVos has since resigned from the Neurocore board, she has refused to sell her shares in the company.
 · Microsoft-Patented GSR Monitors: The Microsoft Corporation has recently been sending a series of applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in order to patent "smart fabric" technologies that are "woven" with computerized biosensors, such as "galvanic skin response monitors," that can digitally track the wearer's neuro-emotional status through "electrodermal activity" (EDA) and other biometric measurements which can be wirelessly transmitted through IT telecommunications across the internet-of-things. This Microsoft patent application comes several years after Microsoft Founder and CEO, Bill Gates, commissioned his tax-exempt Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to dump over $1 million dollars into "galvanic skin response" (GSR) bracelets that can biometrically gauge a student's socioemotional engagement with classroom lessons and coursework. In 2011, the Gates Foundation poured $621,265 into the National Center on Time & Learning "to measure engagement physiologically with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Galvanic Skin Response to determine correlations between each measure and develop a scale that differentiates different degrees or levels of engagement." Then, in 2012, the Gates Foundation issued a grant of $498,055 to Clemson University to "work with members of the Measuring Effective Teachers (MET) team to measure engagement physiologically with Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) bracelets which will determine the feasibility and utility of using such devices regularly in schools with students and teachers ."(It is worth noting here that the Microsoft Corporation has also developed an "emotion-analysis API [application program interface]" that is an artificial-intelligence (AI) software for detecting human emotions through facial recognition algorithms.)
 · BrainCo EEG Conditioning: The BrainCo Corporation data-mines student brainwaves through computerized headbands that scan students' electroencephalography (EEG) wavelengths to calculate students' socioemotional "engagement" and cognitive-behavioral "focus." Prototyped at Harvard University's Innovation Lab, BrainCo's "Focus 1" headband was awarded the prize for "Most Innovative" ed-tech at the 2017 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference. BrainCo is also engineering Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) headbands which electronically administer cognitive-behavioral therapies that treat ADHD . It should be noted that the BrainCo company is funded by several Chinese firms such as Wandai Capital, Decent Capital, Han Tan Capital, and the China Electronics Corporation, which classifies itself as "one of the key state-owned conglomerates directly under the administration of central government, and the largest state-owned IT company in China."
 · Affectiva Behavioral Advertising: A data-aggregation company called "Affectiva" provides "predictive analytics" services that combine "behavioral advertising" algorithms with "student learning" algorithms in order to "personalize" both commercial ads and school lessons according to individualized psychological profiles. According to Professor of Education at Towson University, Morna McDermott McNulty, "Affectiva uses voice and facial recognition software to track real-time emotions of device users interacting with online content. That company [Affectiva] spun out of the MIT Media lab and contracts with global brands to test advertising campaigns; but it is also used to gather data about student engagement with online education programs." It is quite telling that Affectiva's SEL algorithms, which are programmed to scan students' socioemotional engagement in response to digital learning stimuli, are in essence the same as Affectiva's behavioral-advertising algorithms, which are programmed to data-mine consumers' socioemotional engagement with commercial ads. By combining SEL with behavioral advertising, the Affectiva corporation is in a niche to win public-private community-schooling contracts to dispense ed-technologies that data-mine students' job-competence algorithms to fill workforce-planning quotas.
 · Akili "Videogame Prescriptions": Clinical trials at Duke University have been completed for a prescription ADHD video game called AKL-T01, which is owned by the Akili Interactive Labs Corporation. According to Professor McDermott McNulty, the AKL-T01 digital prescription "looks and feels like a high-end video game, leveraging art, music, storytelling and reward cycles to keep patients engaged and immersed for the delivery of therapeutic activity with excellent compliance." Akili Interactive Labs is also gearing up for "many other digital treatments in the pipeline." McNulty demonstrates that "[i]f Akili attains FDA approval for their ADHD game and is able to get insurance companies to pay for it, an enormous new market for prescription digital therapies will open up." In fact, there is a high probability that the FDA and the insurance industry will approve of Akili's AKL-T01 and thereby set the precedent to open up government regulations for other socioemotional videogame therapies because the Akili company is heavily backed by the pharmaceutical industry, which is one of the most powerful lobbies in the United States. Merck Ventures, Amgen Ventures, PureTech Health, Canepa Healthcare, and Jazz Venture Partners have all poured a combined $72 million into the Akili Corporation.
Tragedy and Rope a Dope:
Beware of community-schooling reforms that neo-liberal demagogues, such as Elizabeth Warren and Tim Ryan, are hyping as the remedy to "school choice" charter privatization. Despite the "progressive" window dressing of "community-based" socioemotional learning, "leftwing" community schools are pushing SEL curriculums that implement corporate-government workforce conditioning administered through public-private "pipeline" partnerships with private companies such as Neurocore, Microsoft, BrainCo, Affectiva, and Akili.
As historicized in the academic tome, Tragedy and Hope , by Georgetown University Professor of History, Carroll Quigley, the same oligarchy of corporate-industrialists pilots both the left and right wings of America's two-party political machine toward the same technocratically planned economy. Quigley, who was President Bill Clinton's mentor, professed that
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