Henry Kronk writes: Earlier in November, about 100 students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn walked out of school. They were protesting the school’s adoption of Summit Learning and the Summit Platform. Having grown frustrated with long hours of screen time every day and a system that didn’t suite them well, put their…
Category: Youth & Schools
Illinois school district drops controversial eavesdropping case against former student
Austin Berg has a welcomed update to a case that never should have been hanging over a teenager’s head: Paul Boron no longer has a potential felony hanging over his head. But Illinois’ eavesdropping law means others like him might not be so lucky. The young Illinoisan spent his summer at the center of an…
Ca: Administrators won’t remove camera pointed at school bathrooms
Jack Julian reports: Education officials in Cape Breton are refusing to remove a video camera pointed at the entrance of two student bathrooms, despite objections from Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner. The camera was one of several at the Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona that was streaming live images to the internet last year because no one set the…
PH: Privacy breach at center of pregnancy test probe
Philippine Daily Inquirer reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Wednesday began investigating a medical school here to determine if it was liable for unauthorized data collection when it directed its female students to undergo pregnancy tests. The first hearing was held behind closed doors, but Pines City Colleges said that mandatory pregnancy examinations were meant…