The Alabama College and Career Ready Standards, as well as the Common Core State Standards, are only academic standards for each grade in math and English. Neither set of standards mandates any type of data collection.
Alabama’s College and Career Ready Standards are academic standards that say nothing about collection of student or teacher data or information. Regardless, all student and teacher data is already protected by FERPA.
And, frankly, as a 7th grade public school teacher, I find the “new” math standards to be rigorous and require students to THINK!
The Common Core Standards are part of the Plummet to the Bottom, errr I mean Race to the Top, obama educational package. With RttT, schools are required to follow the Common Core and report data to the gubmint. I don’t know if Alabama has accepted RttT, but the state can still use the Common Core without accepting it. If Alabama did accept RttT, you will be enting student data into gubmint databases.