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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Our students deserve that.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005.

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