Benjamin Herold reports: Districts trying to navigate rapidly shifting legal, technical, and parent concerns about student data privacy can take immediate steps, including designating a senior administrator as the person responsible for ensuring adherence to applicable laws and policies. That’s just one of the new recommendations from the Washington-based Consortium for School Networking, a membership association…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Psychologists warn lack of privacy may put students at risk
Alexandra Smith reports: School counsellors in NSW independent schools fear students will avoid seeking help or talking openly about their problems because principals can now demand access to their confidential files, the Australian Psychological Society (APS) has warned. A new national privacy manual for independent schools says a principal can access a counsellor’s files “in…
North Carolina enacts new student privacy and data security law
Bryan Warner of The Voter Update reports that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a student privacy bill into law: Ensuring Privacy of Student Records (S815) – A bill ensuring the privacy and security of student educational records. Passed 114-0 in the House and 49-0 in the Senate. (Primary sponsors: Sens. Barefoot, Brock and Soucek)…
Academics call for guidelines on use of online learners’ data
Chris Parr reports: Guidelines to ensure the ethical use of data gathered from online learners need to be developed, to prevent the misuse of personal information, a group of academics has said. Delegates at the Asilomar Convention for Learning Research in Higher Education, which took place in California earlier this month, have produced a framework…