Maybe we should expect stupid behavior in response to apps with stupid names? Tim Cushing writes: Universities are still freaking out over the fact that some of their students are racists and assholes. But rather than deal with the inevitability that any decent-sized grouping of people will contain a percentage of both, they’ve opted to shoot the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Colorado education board not satisfied with answers on data privacy from testing company
Debbie Kelley reports: Are parents just being paranoid or are their concerns about the privacy of student data that’s collected during computerized testing and on surveys valid? Perhaps some of both. During a public hearing, the Colorado State Board of Education hosted Thursday, officials from the Colorado Department of Education and Pearson State Assessment Services…
Wyden wants answers on student health-record privacy
KTVZ reports: Sen. Ron Wyden, D- Ore., asked Thursday for details about the thoroughness of privacy protections on health information for students who use on-campus medical facilities at colleges and universities nationwide. In a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Wyden expressed concern that the rules protecting medical information collected by campus health facilities are…
Congresswoman ‘Troubled’ By Privacy Loophole On Student Health Records Confronts Education Department
Tyler Kingkade reports: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) on Wednesday sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education expressing concern that current federal law may permit universities to review a student’s medical records without their permission. “I am troubled that there appears to be a loophole in federal privacy law that allows the personal and…