Melissa C. Rodman of the Harvard Crimson reports: Students have raised concerns that the Bureau of Study Counsel’s administrative move to the College’s purview may compromise their privacy, but the College maintains that it will not. Administrators will not use information gathered from students’ meetings with BSC counselors for disciplinary purposes, Faculty of Arts and Sciences…
Category: Youth & Schools
Regulating Student Data Privacy: Don’t Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater
Amelia Vance, Director of Education Data and Technology for the National Association of State Boards of Education writes: Experts predicted that student data privacy would be a major issue in 2015, and they were right: As of March 26, state legislatures in 41 states had introduced a combined 160 student privacy bills, more than the…
Needed: Strict privacy rules for NYC public school students’ cell-phones
Johanna Miller, the advocacy director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, writes: A student’s cell phone isn’t a wallet or hairbrush. Its contents can be as personal as a diary. In a Texas school district, for example, a teacher seized a student’s phone and searched her text-message history, discovering a private nude photograph she had…
Hampden Wilbraham Regional School Committee says NO to giving PARCC access to students’ social media accounts
Dave Madsen reports: WILBRAHAM, Mass (WGGB) — Protecting a student’s right to privacy. The Hampden Wilbraham Regional School Committee saying no to giving the company that oversees PARCC testing access to student’s (sic) social media accounts. School committee members taking a stand for student’s rights to privacy. In a letter to the Massachusetts department of elementary and…