E.K. Moore reports: The home page of Pinellas County Schools in Florida is brimming with information for families, students, staff members and the public: an easy-to-use dashboard of news, shortcuts and links to the district’s Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube channel. But Pinellas’s home page has been supplying information to another audience, an unseen…
Category: Youth & Schools
For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students
Natasha Singer has a must-read report on how businesses are compiling and selling student data. If you are a parent or student privacy advocate, be sure to read her entire article. Here’s how it begins, but there’s a lot of meat to it, and she names names. Three thousand high school students from across the…
Judge rebukes Buffalo Schools as he agrees to hear arguments on releasing records
Jay Rey reports: The federal magistrate behind the controversial order to release names and admissions scores of hundreds of students from City Honors and Hutchinson Central Technical School is now raising privacy concerns, as well. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy also rebuked Buffalo Public Schools for not bringing up this issue before his…
Authorities: Student privacy laws hinder efforts to stop school shootings
Adam Owens report on WRAL. And yes, expect to see at least some folks saying that we need to revamp or weaken FERPA so that we can prevent school shootings. Of course, they could just strengthen the laws prohibiting guns, but hey…. Seriously: when you drill down into it, it’s not FERPA (the federal law…