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A Real and Present Student Data Privacy Threat

Doug Levin

According to the study authors, schools and school districts define misbehaviors differently and attach different sanctions to similar behaviors – and significant disparities in suspensions and expulsions are well-documented (particularly affecting African American students and students with disabilities).

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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

Edsurge

“Even relatively low proportions of posts that reveal the PII of students mean that the privacy of hundreds of thousands of students may be risked,” researchers wrote. The quantities were notable, researchers explained, because of well-documented parental concerns over other people having access to their children’s information.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

Edsurge

Candidly, this was not something we expected to see,” said Elizabeth Laird, senior fellow on student privacy at the CDT, during an online event with education reporters. Those students may also be subject to bias and profiling that is sometimes inadvertently baked into the technology they use.

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Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

But while we have the internet to thank for our contemporary, robust e-learning landscape, security and privacy concerns are rampant as well. How students can help secure their personal data. Educators and administrators can do their part in keeping student information private, by making cybersecurity a high priority.

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

The Hechinger Report

Was their children’s private data going to be safe even outside the district’s hands? Baltimore County has become a leader in student data privacy and security, and is one of only 13 districts in the nation to earn a Trusted Learning Environment seal from CoSN, the membership group representing the nation’s K-12 school technology leaders.

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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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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. The agreement is very robust and provides a good launching point for conversation.”