Who Controls America

by Mark Mullen

Why would the Department of Education need student DNA, fingerprints, family voting history, or other personal data? The argument used by the DOE is this data is needed to create computerized, personalized, and learning experiences. Computer software would use student data to design lessons based on the students’ non-cognitive skills such as current mindset and emotional status. But is that claim true? Shane Vander Hart of Kansans Against Common Core doesn’t believe so. “Federal involvement in education is about control, not education. The partnership between the federal departments of Labor and Education to further the development of fully functioning statewide birth-to-adulthood databases on citizens, and commonality of standards and testing across the country is reshaping the nation. It will result, as intended, in only people whose education they can control getting jobs, getting into college, and getting into the military. It’s a tool of control, not a tool of education.”[38]