CBS News reports: As summer vacation winds down, new legislation is raising concern over digital privacy at school. Nationwide, only four states prohibit kids’ personal information from being shared by schools with third party vendors, like marketers. Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer said until a couple of years ago, many schools weren’t even…
Category: Youth & Schools
New Project Tackles Unlocking Student Data While Protecting Privacy
Jill Barshay writes: LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally-funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become “the biggest open repository of education data” in the world, according to the project leader, Ken Koedinger. If you think that sounds ambitious and a lot like inBloom, the Gates Foundation-funded non-profit that shut its doors in 2014 after…
Changes are coming to FERPA, including the potential for fines
Joseph W. Cornelison of Husch Blackwell LLP writes: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently announced the introduction of a bill to amend FERPA. The Student Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 3157) has bipartisan support and is intended to modernize privacy protections, improve communication, and “hold schools, states and independent entities accountable for their use of…
IL: Tragedy allows access for student health information to parents
Laura Nightengale reports: A Bartonville family’s tragedy prompted the creation a new law that will give colleges the ability to share students’ mental health information with parents. It wasn’t until after the death of their son, Chris, who was a freshman at Illinois State University last year, that Mike and Kim Predmore learned Chris had…