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NCSL Adopted Policy Directive: Student Data Privacy
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThe National Conference of State Legislatures adopted a policy directive in 2016 on the appropriate role for the federal government on student data privacy (pa…
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Undocumented Students and Families: The Facts
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThis guide is for local education agencies who wish to understand their obligations under student privacy statutes and other Federal laws with respect to undoc…
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Personal Information Protections By Law (Protected PII Table)
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThis chart provides an overview of what types of personally identifiable information are protected by various federal and state student privacy laws.
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Creating a Healthy Digital Environment for 21st Century Learners
May 12, 2017Marsali Hancock and Robert DillonLearn MoreThis case study offers the example of the Ventura County Office of Education and how they prioritized protecting personally identifiable information, passwords…
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Forum Guide to Supporting Data Access for Researchers: An SEA Perspective
May 12, 2017Learn MoreThe primary audiences for this document are data policymakers and managers in SEAs who are generally responsible for managing and responding to requests for da…
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Building a Student-Level Data System
May 12, 2017Ben MillerLearn MoreThis report examines a provision added to the Higher Education Act in 2008 which prohibits the Department of Education from creating a new database of informat…
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Tattoos, Tickets, and Other Tawdry Behavior: How Universities Use Federal Law to Hide Their Scandals,
May 12, 2017Mary Margaret PenroseLearn MoreThis article hopes to argue for a change in the dynamic that means schools' inverted resort to FERPA is not truly to advance "student privacy," but rather a co…
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Applications of Student Data in Higher Education Issues and Ethical Considerations
May 12, 2017Sharon SladeLearn MoreThis report focuses on the applications strand which sought to yield further insight into: the main areas of focus and most promising types of applications for…
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Student Privacy Self-Management: Implications For Learning Analytics
May 12, 2017Paul Prinsloo and Sharon SladeLearn MoreThis paper explores issues around consent and the seemingly simple choice to allow students to opt-in or opt-out of having their data tracked. We consider how …
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Understanding Information Security and Privacy in Postsecondary Education Data Systems
May 12, 2017Joanna Lyn GramaLearn MoreThis paper outlines the information security and privacy challenges that exist within the national postsecondary education data infrastructure. It also introdu…
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Hiding Behind Ivory Towers: Penalizing Schools That Improperly Invoke Student Privacy To Suppress Open Records Requests
May 12, 2017Rob SilverblattLearn MoreThis article suggests the status quo gives institutions strong incentives to unlawfully deny open records requests through reliance on FERPA. Indeed, it makes …
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Failed Justifications: Why Privacy and Federalism Do Not Support the Ban on a Federal Unit-Record System
May 12, 2017Nathaniel CusterLearn MoreThis article suggests that the ban on a federal unit-record system cannot be supported by appeals to either privacy or federalism. Because these arguments were…
