Kate Fazzini reports: Researchers from the Aspen Institute are raising concerns about a Florida initiative meant to collect and collate huge amounts of data on schoolchildren in the state, according to a report released Thursday. Florida schools are now required to collect, store and crunch data on students in the name of predicting school shootings. The Florida Schools…
Category: Youth & Schools
How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik report: The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing sitec in 2005. None of them could have foreseen that 14 years…
State forms data privacy council to address protecting student information issues
Tim Tooten reports: After a recent state audit showed that Maryland needs to do a better job of protecting student’s personal records, the state has formed a student data privacy council to help address the issue. There have been concerns for some time, both in Maryland and around the nation about how much is too…
Lawmakers Urge AG Raoul to Investigate College Board for Selling Student Data
Matt Masterston reports: A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers believes the vendor that develops and administers the SAT and Advanced Placement exams may be violating state law by selling student data to colleges, universities and scholarship providers. Nine state senators and representatives this week penned a letter to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, urging him…