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What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country

Edsurge

According to a student data privacy law passed there a few years ago, anyone who collects or shares students’ personally identifiable information (or PII, as the shorthand goes) can be punished by up to six months in prison or $10,000 in fines. So we went through and we trained on that guidebook.

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Privacy Protection and Human Error

Graphite Blog

I had stumbled across a comment on an edtech site where a principal identified a student by name and asked a question that implied an issue with the student, on the open Web. To make matters worse, the principal's question about the student had been responded to by the vendor. For vendors, train your staff.

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‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry

Edsurge

No, not to their wooden desks, blue books and plastic seats. But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). About 1,200 adults in uniform went “Back to School” yesterday. Wow, what a relief!

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Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

The content industry blew up and atomized into millions of pieces when it used to be consolidated into a few mammoth publishers that pushed out lines of books with an internal structure and consistency to learning that was all mapped out for schools. Digital/digitized elements (such as documents, video, e-books, lesson plans) .

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

In particular, they wanted to be able to encourage consistent practices across school buildings, ensure compliance with Colorado’s student data privacy requirements, reduce frustration and confusion among stakeholders (including parents and staff), and begin to evaluate the impact of edtech on student outcomes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Wall Street Journal : “The federal government is pumping $245 million into the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation with hopes of helping students in low-income communities.” ” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.”

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Four Student Data Privacy Issues Adults Should Be Aware Of

MindShift

Consumer groups like Common Sense Media and companies like Microsoft have spoken positively of the bill. But some student-privacy advocates are saying it doesn’t go far enough in restricting what private companies can do with student data. Transparency. Reputation.