In July, I summarized patterns I saw in documents obtained by EPIC from the Department of Education. The documents were the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO)’s responses to complaints by students and parents alleging FERPA violations. Since then, EPIC has received additional interim batches of responses to their freedom of information request. They write: EPIC has obtained new…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Sydney University forces paper to pull name of student accused of sexual harrassment
AAP reports: Sydney University has come under fire for pressuring a student newspaper into pulling the identity of a male student named and shamed over a sexual misconduct claim. The article in Honi Soit headlined “Uni fails sexual harassment victim” examined the university’s response to a case where a naked photo of a female student…
Decision reserved in lawsuit over Saskatchewan student’s cellphone privacy
Chelsea Laskowski provides an update to a lawsuit noted previously on this blog: A judge has reserved decision in a lawsuit over whether a Grade 6 student’s privacy was violated when school staff read the texts on his cellphone. Court heard a teacher at Riverside Community School in Prince Albert took the 12-year-old’s phone when…
Ed. Data-Mining Research Effort Wins Federal Grant, Raises Privacy Questions
Benjamin Herold reports: The National Science Foundation earlier this month awarded a $4.8 million grant to a coalition of prominent research universities aiming to build a massive repository for storing, sharing, and analyzing the information students generate when using digital learning tools. The project, dubbed “LearnSphere,” highlights the continued optimism that “big” educational data might be used…