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Balancing Student Privacy, Campus Security, and Public Safety: Issues for Campus Leaders
May 11, 2017Lesley McBainLearn MoreThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide background information on student privacy and campus security, and to review best practices that college and u…
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The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education
May 11, 2017Manuela Ekowo and Iris PalmerLearn MoreIn 'The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: A Landscape Analysis,' authors Manuela Ekowo and Iris Palmer describe how predictive ana…
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Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: Five Guiding Practices for Ethical Use
May 11, 2017Manuela Ekowo and Iris PalmerLearn MoreThis report discusses the use of data in higher education, which are primarily used in the following ways:• Early-Alert Systems. In an early-alert system, flag…
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Big Data in the Campus Landscape
May 11, 2017ECAR Working GroupLearn MoreThis paper is a publication of the ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group. It is the third paper in a four-part series focusing on Big Data i…
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Privacy In the Age of Analytics
May 11, 2017Learn MoreThe move to digital information systems has allowed student data to become more visible and centralized. Technological mediation has also brought a range of th…
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Summary and Analysis of the Data Privacy Provisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Proposed Head Start Performance Standard
May 11, 2017Learn MoreOn June 19, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on proposed ch…
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Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Schools
May 11, 2017Learn MoreThe goals of the study are threefold: first, to provide a national picture of cloud computing in public schools; second, to assess how public schools address t…
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Children’s Educational Records and Privacy: A Study of Elementary and Secondary School State Reporting Systems
May 11, 2017Learn MoreThe study reports on the results of a survey of all fifty states and finds that state educational databases across the country ignore key privacy protections f…
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Back to the Drawing Board: Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools
May 10, 2017Learn MoreThis report aims to carefully examine and advocate for effective policies, regulations, and laws governing youth privacy where technology meets student informa…
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Ensuring Equity in ESSA: The Role of N-Size in Subgroup Accountability
May 10, 2017Learn MoreThis report recommends that states set their n-size as low as possible (ten or fewer students) to maximize the number of student subgroups created. This will e…
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Capacity Enablers and Barriers for Learning Analytics: Implications for Policy and Practice
May 10, 2017Learn MoreData dashboards are based on the idea that numerous individual performance indicators, such as academic achievement and leadership, correct the shortcomings of…
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Data Dashboard: Accounting for What Matters
May 10, 2017Learn MoreThe report offers policy recommendations to help states and districts to develop data dashboards that provide the right indicators for their students and teach…
