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An uncertain future for big data in education

New York drops out of inBloom, a Gates Foundation-backed effort to store data.

A victory for privacy advocates in New York spells trouble for a national effort to track student data–everything from grades and test scores to disabilities and suspensions. The New York State Education Department has confirmed it will no longer store any student information with the non-profit inBloom. That makes New York the last big customer to drop out of an initiative backed by the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Once boasting nine states as potential customers, the nonprofit group says it’s still talking with individual school districts around the country.

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