Dive Brief:

• A nonprofit corporation collects information from many school databases and stores it in the cloud, but some parents and watchdogs worry about student privacy.
• InBloom aims to facilitate personalized learning and has high-profile backers, including $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Nine states signed up to participate, but just three are actively pursuing the service after parents and privacy advocates raised questions about access to student data.

Dive Insight:

Privacy questions surrounding student data are likely to become more frequent. The education software market for K- 12 is estimated at $8 billion and a push is on to use individual data to analyze student performance and meet Common Core goals. InBloom's head says the company does not examine, use, analyze or sell the student data.