Your Children's Data Is Being Collected by Educational Technology Companies by@TheMarkup
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Your Children's Data Is Being Collected by Educational Technology Companies

by The Markup10mJuly 13th, 2022
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A little-known private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, has built an educational software empire that wields unseen influence over the educational journeys of tens of millions of children. Along the way, the companies the firm controls have scooped up a massive amount of very personal data on kids, which they use to fuel a suite of predictive analytics products that push the boundaries of technology’s role in education and, in some cases, raise discrimination concerns. One district we examined uses risk-scoring algorithms from a company in the group, PowerSchool, that incorporate indicators of family wealth to predict a student's future success.

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