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FAQ: Cloud Computing and Privacy
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis document is designed to assist educational agencies and institutions that are considering using cloud computing solutions for education data. It contains …
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Identity Authentication Best Practices
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis brief offers best practice recommendations for developing and implementing effective authentication processes to help ensure that only appropriate individ…
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SEA Contractor Responsibilities under FERPA
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis document is intended for state educational agencies (SEAs) and/or their contracted companies to use to inform the contractors’ staff about their responsib…
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Policies for Users of Student Data Checklist
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis PTAC Document aims to assist schools and districts in crafting data use policies to ensure appropriate protection of students’ data. While it is not manda…
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Mapping Data Flows Checklist
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis guidance document is intended to help educational agencies and institutions create visual “maps” of how their data flows in the data systems. Including ma…
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Data Security Checklist
Jul 1, 2015Learn MoreThis checklist is designed to assist stakeholder organizations with developing and maintaining a successful data security program by listing essential componen…
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Data Governance Checklist
Jun 1, 2015Learn MoreThis checklist is designed to assist stakeholder organizations with establishing and maintaining a successful data governance program by summarizing the key da…
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A Stoplight for Student Data Use
Feb 12, 2015Learn MoreThe foundational federal law on student privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), establishes student privacy rights by restricting with …
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Roadmap to Safeguarding Student Data
Jan 12, 2015Learn MoreIf our destination is improved student achievement, we cannot get there without valuing and effectively using data in education. Central to reaching this goal …
Student Data: Trust, Transparency, and the Role of Consent
Oct 1, 2014Jules Polonetsky and Joseph JeromeLearn MoreIntroduction Over the past decade, new technologies in schools have generated an “explosion of data” for public school systems to use and analyze.1 According …
