In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

Each school year, one important task on a principal’s plate is to review student-achievement data to identify trends and adjust goals. However, several common misinterpretations and misuse of such ...

Worcester Public Schools administration has expressed clear commitments to taking steps to increase transparency around ...

Information from hundreds of thousands of current and former Chicago Public School students has been exposed following a data breach, according to district officials. In a letter to parents Friday, ...

In the National Student Data Corps at UCLA, students aim to create an inclusive community for students exploring data science. NSDC was created in 2022 when one of its founders noticed a large number ...

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data. PowerSchool, the ...

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A ruling by the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency serves as a warning to ed-tech and school-service vendors that digital access to school life cannot be contingent upon being tracked ...

The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in ...

High schools and colleges in the Sacramento region will share specific student data with each other in an effort to increase postsecondary success, according to a news release last month. In addition ...

The Department of Education (ED) on Thursday opened an investigation into a program that may be illegally collecting and sharing student information for the purpose of “influencing elections,” the ...