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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

For over two centuries, student information and data was kept in paper form, often in filing cabinets in a school or district office. During this time, there was little concern over security breaches, improper data sharing, or student privacy issues. accidentally uploads private data of 12,000 students. ”.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition)

Doug Levin

For over 40 years the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) ran a program to support this vulnerable student population, but that has come to an end - in part because of student data privacy concerns. Now that very same data could be used to track them down.

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition)

Doug Levin

For over 40 years the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) ran a program to support this vulnerable student population, but that has come to an end - in part because of student data privacy concerns. Now that very same data could be used to track them down.

EdTech 150
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Pursuing Academic Freedom and Data Privacy Is a Balancing Act

Edsurge

Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

This will require further funding and technological solutions to deal with the vast inequality between the students who have full and fast access to online education, and the many students who still do not. Dr. Smith recommends using the community and its knowledge base to obtain information, anticipate issues, and develop solutions.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

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Of course, there are technical aspects to protecting data, and as many schools have learned during the pandemic, district IT staff need to stay on top of evolving efforts to compromise systems. But that’s just one part of guarding student information. Based on CoSN’s “ Student Data Privacy: A School System Priority.

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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

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Schools have valuable information to protect for both students and employees. Lilly explained that his schools, for instance, have frequent administrative access audits to ensure they can’t see information, like social security numbers, they shouldn’t. Student Digital Records: Not all attacks are about stealing data.