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    A privacy maze

    Sep 18, 2015

    We moved. We left our beloved Brooklyn for a new State to call home. Moving means not just a new house but new routines, new friends and new schools! And as ex…

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    What do parents think about student data privacy?

    Sep 10, 2015

    I know that nobody asked me what I thought about student data privacy when I began inquiring about my children’s education records and how their privacy was pr…

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    Should we all opt out?

    Aug 30, 2015

    A new school year is just around the corner and my kids will be attending new schools. Not only am I excited about the school year ahead and the experiences of…

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    Is student data really daunting?

    Aug 21, 2015

    Should we be afraid of student data? More often than not, the conversations around student data revolve around security and privacy concerns. What will happen …

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    When privacy becomes too private

    Aug 14, 2015

    Is it possible that in our effort to protect our kid’s privacy we make it too private? Let me put it this way, what happens when we make privacy laws so restri…

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    Having the Talk?

    Aug 6, 2015

    The new school year is about to start and so is the season when parents are posting pictures on social media of their adorable moppets going back to school. Bu…

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    Student Data Privacy in Real Life

    Jul 30, 2015

    “We need to safeguard student data.” But how do we do this and what does it mean to use student data?

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    And the Senate follows suit

    Jul 24, 2015

    It might be summer, but things are certainly not slowing down in education and student privacy.

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    The importance of good data

    Jul 10, 2015

    For the first time since 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives debated and passed thereauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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    A new data portal for students

    Jun 26, 2015

    Finally a new student data website that delivers better information on students?

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    What does it take to protect student privacy?

    Jun 18, 2015

    We often discuss privacy in terms of what needs to be done to protect student data but the thing that has become clear in my conversations with different stake…

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    What is PPRA? Another student data privacy law

    Jun 10, 2015Olga Garcia-Kaplan

    We hear a lot of conversation around FERPA and the need to update the law but there is another law that protects student privacy that has a different purpose, …

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