Jay Stanley writes: Everywhere I go, I hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe is “just true.” The latest claim to this effect comes in the form of a new poll, the release of which was trumpeted with unfortunate headlines…
Category: Youth & Schools
NYC Parents Raise Questions About InBloom
From edSurge: The education data portal, inBloom, raised hackles this week among a group of New York City parents and educators who worry about the nonprofit’s plans to compile student information into a wide-ranging education data portal–and they’re organizing against it via email listservs, open forums and legislative bills. Local community opposition to the inBloom plan…
John White Withdraws Louisiana Student Data from inBloom
Andrew Ujifusa writes: In my April 24 blog post on Alabama’s decision to kill anti-Common-Core legislation, I mentioned that opponents have linked the standards, without citing specifics, to technology they allege the federal government is developing to track students’ facial expressions in classroom. However, others also have voiced concerns about student privacy involving academic data and…
Florida court reverses opinion on FERPA case involving confidentiality of student complaint against professor
A Florida appeals court has reversed its opinion in a student privacy case, ruling last month that the college does not have to disclose to a professor the name of a student who sent an email complaining of his classroom behavior and teaching methods. The ruling, issued by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals in…