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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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Fayette County Public Schools Leverage Lightspeed Engagement and Impact to Streamline Edtech and Data Privacy Management

Lightspeed Systems

Overview OVERVIEW With a strong focus on data governance, Fayette County Public Schools partners with Lightspeed Systems® to effectively manage their edtech ecosystem—in and outside of the classroom. However, Fayette County knew that ensuring student data privacy on the school-issued devices was going to be a challenge. “We

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student. Kevin then moved on to work as an education technology specialist and headed a district’s student data privacy, internet safety, and security initiative.

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COPPA Best Practices: Advice for Schools on Staying on the Right Side of the Law

Edsurge

For guidance on these and other matters, her district works with the California Student Privacy Alliance and their student data privacy agreement, a template document districts can use as a contract with providers. tools teachers want to use in their classrooms. If it’s free, hey use it.”

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Who is keeping student data safe in the era of digital learning?

The Hechinger Report

As students spend more time on digital devices in school, data security becomes increasingly important. When Baltimore County Public Schools started giving every student a computer for daily use in the classroom, teachers sought out more online learning materials to go with them.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

Edsurge

Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. But what happens in these legislative halls are rarely visible to teachers, students and parents.

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How can schools protect student data without training teachers in privacy basics?

The Hechinger Report

“The first line of defense in protecting student privacy are our teachers, and we’re not making sure that they have the tools to keep that data safe,” said Amelia Vance, policy counsel for the nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum. And plenty of free privacy resources can be found online.