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Policymakers, parents, and privacy advocates have long asked whether FERPA is up to the task of protecting student privacy in the 21st century. A just-released letter regarding the Agora Cyber Charter School might signal that a FERPA compliance crack-down – frequently mentioned as their next step after providing extensive guidance…
by Kyle Jones Records define us–partially. They enclose data and information that reveal our past, present, and increasingly our future. But they are never perfect representations of who we are as individuals, nor are they able to capture the richness Choose Privacy Week 2016 – Educational records: More than just grades and detentions in an era of data-driven education
A loophole in how the government interprets a 1970s-era student privacy law can give companies a way to access student data without parental approval.
It's time for Congress to fix the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
Each kid is unique, but there’s one thing all students have in common: They are data-generating machines. This tsunami of data is absorbed and stored by school districts, state databases, educational service providers, websites, and app makers. Most of this data collection is well intentioned, but not all.
Nevada's state longitudinal data system does not contain readable records for individual children, state officials said, raising new questions in the educational-data debate.
Yesterday the White House released its report on big data and privacy implications. The focus was broadly on big data, but there will be implications for ed tech, with several key recommendations specifically focused on the education sector. Specifically, there will be a push to update and revise the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, […]
To beef up protections for the personal information about students that schools may share with technology vendors, two prominent federal senators propose to amend a longstanding federal law on education privacy.
Do you require your students to blog in class? Do they post their blogs publicly? Have you worried about legal, ethical, or FERPA issues? We talked about all of this in a recent meeting of the Duke
Blackboard stores passwords IN THE CLEAR and emails them back to users IN THE CLEAR. W. T. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.