How Data Analytics In Education Could Create a New Class of Haves and Have-nots

mattydread23 writes "Every student learns differently. Some educators are starting to use data analytics to figure out how to tailor teaching techniques to individual students, rather than using the 'one size fits all' approach. But Alec Ross, a senior advisor on innovation at the U.S. State Department, worries this would create a new class of haves and have-nots. Speaking at the Schools for Tomorrow conference last week, Ross said, 'A lot of what I see is the ability to productize and commercialize very intensive assessments of individual limits. So what I imagine is parents getting their kids essentially a $30,000 educational checkup where they extract enormous amounts of data about the kinds of learners their children are, the kinds of education deficits they have.'"

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[i kan reed]

It's increasingly becoming the case, especially in the US, that the only real way to make money is to have money. Investment returns compared to work returns have skyrocketed, top marginal tax rates(and particular capital gains) have dropped absurdly, and mobility supporting institutions have been increasingly privatized, disestablished, or defunded.

Due to broken and even anti-democratic electoral processes, I can't actually see that trend reversing normally. It's not revolution-worthy yet, but it couldn't hurt to start planning a guillotine.

Re:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

[fredprado]

So lets keep everything equally dumb, right? Typical leftist mentality... Lets share the misery!