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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

million student records had been compromised in 1,327 data breaches in U.S. schools, including colleges and universities, since 2005. The GAO report wasn’t a thorough survey of data breaches at schools but an analysis of press clippings. Our students deserve that. Earlier this year, the website estimated that 24.5

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From 1995 to 2005, DeVos sat on the board of the Acton Institute , which recently published a blog post decrying child labor laws. “ Will Trump care about student data privacy? “ Cornel West Will Return to Teach at Harvard ,” The New York Times reports. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.