Benjamin Herold of McClatchy News Service has a must-read report on student privacy and data-sharing. It begins: Privacy advocates say the increased collection, storage, and sharing of educational data pose real threats to children and families, from identify theft to nuisance advertising, misguided profiling to increased surveillance of everyday activities. There is even the potential…
Category: Youth & Schools
Sen. Schumer seeks $10 million to buy GPS devices to track autistic children
Associated Press reports: The federal government would pay for GPS tracking devices for autistic children under legislation proposed Sunday by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and named for a New York City boy who wandered away from his school three months ago and was found dead in a city river. “Avonte’s Law,” named for 14-year-old Avonte…
State Chiefs to Arne Duncan: We Won’t Share Student Data
Catherine Gewertz reports: Schools chiefs from 34 states have banded together to make a public declaration that they will not share personally identifiable student data with the federal government. In a letter sent to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Thursday afternoon, the state superintendents said they are trying to calm a rising tide of concern that administering…
New Laws Are Needed To Protect Student Data In The Digital Age
Bradley Shear writes: Students and schools around the country are utilizing new digital technologies in ways many people did not imagine at the turn of the century and those technologies offer great promise. Just ten years ago, terms like “big data”, “the cloud”, “data mining”, and “social media” were not well known by students, parents, and…