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Storage Wars: Choosing a Secure Student Data Solution

EdTech Magazine

Storage Wars: Choosing a Secure Student Data Solution. Legislators across all 50 states have introduced student data privacy laws. The move makes sense: As educators leverage the benefits of connected classroom technologies, student data is captured and used to personalize the experience.

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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

eSchool News

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Controversy over weakened laws.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

Levin counted each district’s data breach separately, even if they were all hit by the same cyber attack. For example, a major breach at educational testing company Pearson during the 2019-20 school year affected an unknown number of student records in thousands of schools. Our students deserve that.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

With schools shuttered and facing budget cuts due to the pandemic, priority issues include securing federal funding for schools to purchase technology, along with better safeguards for student data privacy, says Joseph. Annual membership dues start at $1,000 and increases based on a company’s reported revenues.

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‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry

Edsurge

From left: Kelly Fuller (BMO), John Rogers (The Rise Fund), Elizabeth Chou (Leeds Equity Partners), Waseem Alam (Weld North Education), Adriel Sanchez (Newsela) “Before, you used to concede 90 percent of the market to the Big Three,” said Scott Kinney, president of K-12 Education at Discovery Education, referring to Pearson, McGraw-Hill and HMH.

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Four Student Data Privacy Issues Adults Should Be Aware Of

MindShift

They cover not only privacy, as it’s been discussed here, but related situations, like the recent reports of Pearson’s monitoring public posts on social media for mentions of the PARCC test by students. These “reputational” issues are much more complicated than the rest. ” Copyright 2015 NPR.

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The partnership will advance their shared mission to increase equitable access to high-quality learning technologies, including through enhanced interoperability, student data privacy, and security. Possip provides a community that lets parents have a direct role in improving their schools.