Michael Morris, a lieutenant with the University Police at California State University-Channel Islands, argues for data mining student activity and accounts to predict – and hopefully prevent – violence or other serious problems. He writes, in part: Many campuses across the country and most in California provide each student with an e-mail address, personal access…
Category: Youth & Schools
Online Safety, an Ongoing Education
Clarinette, a lawyer and fervent privacy advocate, has a thoughtful post about keeping parents abreast of online safety issues for kids. Over on Fly a Kite, she describes her experience at a school meeting for parents about online privacy. The turnout was disappointing, the materials outdated, and Clarinette writes: Do we know everything? Surely not….
OH: Court tells OSU to surrender papers
Universities seem to be running up against judges who do not concur that some student records are protected by FERPA, the federal law protecting the privacy of education records. David Eggert reports: The state Supreme Court yesterday ordered Ohio State University to provide copies to the justices — under seal — of records ESPN wants…
Bill would protect home schoolers’ records
Bob Kellogg writes: Republican Congressman Randy Hultgren of Illinois has introduced a bill that would give greater protection to the education records of home schoolers. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) currently protects the privacy of student records for those who attend schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S….