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Category: Youth & Schools
Opinion: Protecting Kids in the Cloud
Shawn Day writes: At fewer than 300 words, the proposal seemed simple enough: Protect student privacy and restrict companies’ ability to use students’ data. The plan – sponsored in the House by Del. David Yancey and in the Senate by Sen. John Cosgrove, both with bipartisan support – failed in committees last winter. But the…
Ca: Residential school testimony should be destroyed after 15 years, court rules
Kathryn Blaze Carlson reports: Testimony from Indian Residential School victims should be destroyed after 15 years unless individuals permit their accounts to be archived, an Ontario court has ruled, raising questions about the extent to which detailed records of one of Canada’s darkest chapters will be preserved for generations to come. […] The future of…
Maryland school district to start monitoring students’ social media posts with new software
Diane Cho reports: Washington County public school officials announced that, with the start of the new school year in just two weeks, they will be using new software to monitor students’ social media posts. The county will be one of only four school districts in the nation to enlist a new software program called Social…