LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Since "No Child Left Behind" was passed 10 years ago, states have been required to ramp up the amount of data they collect about individual students, teachers, and schools.
Personal information, including test scores, economic status, grades, and even disciplinary problems and student pregnancies, are tracked and stored in a kind of virtual "permanent record" for each student.
But parents and students have very little access to that data. All 50 states and Washington, D.C. collect long term, individualized data on students' performance but just eight states allow parents to access their child's permanent record.
And a little over half of the U.S. allows teachers to access see these records. Some argue that education officials can use student data to assess teachers and teachers can use the information to assess students.
But these records have assessments about students that can be very damaging and if it is in digital form you can't control where it will end up.
Today on the C-Block we are asking you who should have access to these records? While they can benefit people in many ways, these records also contain personal information, like social security numbers, that could infringe on a person's privacy.
Tell us what you think by emailing us at cblock@todaysthv.com or leave us a comment on this story.