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Portland State University Researchers May Have Violated FERPA by Using the Personal Data of Thousands of Portland-Area K-12 Students

Posted on March 7, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Katie Shepherd reports:

Plenty of graduate students dislike the research assignments handed to them by professors.

Ezra Whitman, a graduate student in the 2017 class at Portland State University, had a different problem with the homework he was given. He said it broke the law.

“I didn’t want to do it, period,” says Whitman. “It didn’t meet research best practices in any aspect. [We were] illegally harvesting data.”

Read more on Willamette Week.

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