On a recent Saturday night, Caroline Licwinko, a mother of three, a law school student and the coach to her daughter's cheerleading squad, sat in front of her laptop and tapped three words into an internet search engine: “Panorama. Survey. Results.” Within three clicks, Licwinko was in an online “dashboard” created by Panorama Education Inc., a government contractor hired by school districts to gauge their students' “social and emotional learning.” However, Panorama digs far deeper than whether students might feel depressed or lonely, raising serious public policy questions.
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