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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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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Student welfare, of course, is comprised of many elements, including teaching and learning, student mental health, student safety, and, importantly, student data privacy. Lightspeed Systems fully complies with COPPA and students are not allowed to sign up for any of our solutions.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

Edsurge

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. educational institutions shared that data with third parties. But many companies aren’t being as careful.

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The Tech Industry is Hijacking School Data. But Decentralized Systems Can Change That.

Edsurge

While there are laws in place such as the Families and Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act that provide a baseline for protecting student privacy, tech companies can avoid these through various loopholes. Data, in other words, is valuable.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

Edsurge

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. educational institutions shared that data with third parties. But many companies aren’t being as careful.

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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

eSchool News

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. It is not about malicious intruders hacking or stealing credentials to get into a system to steal corporate intellectual property or records to sell on the dark web. Controversy over weakened laws.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

That’s because Louisiana, like many states, lacks a system for tracking students once they enter the workforce. To follow students’ career paths, Rider and her colleagues must ask the graduates themselves for updates. That’s about what we can do right now because we don’t have the tracking system,” she said.

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