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Is student data really daunting?
Aug 21, 2015Learn MoreShould 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, 2015Learn MoreIs 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, 2015Learn MoreThe 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, 2015Learn More“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, 2015Learn MoreIt 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, 2015Learn MoreFor 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, 2015Learn MoreFinally 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, 2015Learn MoreWe 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-KaplanLearn MoreWe 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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What is an educational record?
Jun 1, 2015Learn MoreThis week I was fortunate enough to partake in two interesting but vastly different student privacy events.
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A very busy week for FERPA
May 21, 2015Learn MoreIt has been a very very busy week for FERPA and it reminds me of Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider – the spider wouldn’t stop building her web.
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Storytelling as Privacy
May 14, 2015Learn MoreIf you are the parent of a 5th grader in public school and live in NYC you most likely went through the dreaded “middle school application process” and while t…
