Paula Katinas reports: In the wake of mounting criticism of a plan to share the private records of New York City public school students with businesses that market educational products, the organization that would be assisting the city’s Department of Education is seeking to clarify its role in the project. In an email to a…
Category: Youth & Schools
FTC Votes Unanimously to Retain July 1 Date for Implementation of the Updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule
The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to retain the July 1, 2013 date for implementation of the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). In a letter to industry organizations that had requested that the Commission reconsider the July 1 date, the Commission noted that implementation of the updated rule marks the culmination of a…
NY: Walcott defends plan to release student records to private biz
Paula Katinas reports: Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott defended a controversial plan to allow private businesses to get a look at information about public school students, telling a town hall audience in Bensonhurst that pupil’s privacy would not be violated. Read more on the Brooklyn Eagle. The fact that the schools will be providing “names, addresses, test…
Bill Gates Wants Cameras in Classrooms to Increase Student Participation
Susanne Pesel reports: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have funded the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) which brings together volunteers and researchers “to build and test measures of effective teaching to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to…