The Pearson social media scandal is being reported outside of the U.S. as well, it seems. Kashmira Gander reports: A US examination board has been forced to explain why it is monitoring children, after the Department of Education elerted a school that a student may have leaked test information on Twitter. A number of US…
Category: Youth & Schools
Yale Law School Is Deleting Its Admissions Records, and There’s Nothing Students Can Do About It
Joseph Pomianowski reports: You just got lawyered. That was the takeaway from Yale Law School Dean Robert Post’s annual “State of the School” address last Tuesday. In frank terms, he explained that students who requested access to their educational records under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) would no longer be receiving the…
IL: Kay: Schools should have to get court order for student passwords
Mary Cooley reports: A state lawmaker from the metro-east is pushing legislation that he says will make it more difficult for schools to acquire students’ passwords to their social media accounts. Rep. Dwight Kay, R-Glen Carbon, has filed legislation that would amend a state law that went into effect in January 2014. That original law…
Pearson snooping on school students’ social media?
Dianne writes: There’s a growing outrage after reports today that Pearson Publishing have been spying on students. It is also reported that Pearson is working with some US education departments to censure students who have discussed tests on social media after taking them. Pearson apparently likes to call this ‘listening and monitoring‘. Read more on Save…