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FERPA Exceptions: A Study in Studies
Aug 5, 2024Alexa MooneyLearn MoreThe Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, protects personally identifiable information from education records from unauthorized disclosure. The …
Student Privacy Primer
Oct 5, 2021Learn MoreThis primer explains the concepts of student data, including who uses the data and why they use it; data privacy in general; student data privacy; student data…
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: K-12 News (Feb – July 2018)
Jul 12, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, Erika Ross, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreBeyond our "Top 10," FPF's student privacy newsletter includes many, many other stories. Below are the K-12 stories we found important over the last few months.
Best Privacy Practices for Using Apps in the Classroom
May 1, 2017Learn MoreWhat if I want to use an education app or tool and I don’t know if my school/district has vetted it?
Be familiar with your school’s policy or pr…
When Schools Share Data with Afterschool Programs
Sep 1, 2021Juliana Cotto and Jim SieglLearn MoreThe school shutdowns prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to significant concerns about students’ loss of both academic and social-emotional learning. A …
- Parent Perspectives
The Connected World of High School Sports
Dec 5, 2019Olga Garcia-KaplanLearn MoreI have a kid in high school–"the 15-year-old" as I fondly refer to him on social media–who plays on a school sports team. Thus, I have become immersed in the c…
- FPF Perspectives
FAQs: The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment
Mar 27, 2020David Sallay and Amelia VanceLearn MoreWith recent concerns about students’ overall social and emotional health and school safety, schools are looking more and more to surveys to better understand t…
Educators
May 1, 2017Learn MoreEducator’s Guide To Student Privacy
Technology tools and apps are making it possible for educators and students to collaborate, create, and share ide…- Uncategorized
360 Self Assessment Tool
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThe Generation Safe 360 Self Assessment tool provides a review of the school's e-safety competence and helps schools identify their progress in becoming a Gene…
- FPF Perspectives
New Study on “the Marketplace for Student Data”
Jun 7, 2018Sara Collins, Stacey Gray, Tyler Park, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreFordham University’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) just released the study, “Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data,” which examines t…
Data Privacy and the Student Data Warehouse
Apr 12, 2022Michael Brown, Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, School of Education, Iowa State UniversityLearn MoreExecutive Summary Institutions of higher education in the US have increasingly relied on digital technologies that help to collect, archive, and circulate dat…
