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Data Collection, Transparency And Student Privacy
Parent consent is essential for collecting biometric data when dealing with minor children. States and schools should clearly state which vendors they are using to collect data and how those vendors ...
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Threat assessment teams tasked with preventing school shootings risk unfairly vilifying children
Threat assessment teams try to identify potentially distressed kids and intervene to prevent school shootings, but the ...
Absenteeism remains high and Texas schools want the state’s help to keep students in the classroom.
In a typical school week, Delaila Constante makes more than a dozen calls to parents of students who are frequently absent ...
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Little Tracking, Wide Variability Permeate the Teams Tasked With Stopping School Shootings
Max Schachter wanted to be close to his son Alex on his birthday, July 9, so he watched old videos of him. “It put a smile on my face to see him so happy,” Schachter said. Alex would have turned 21 ...
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Who’s Invisible in the Data?
Chad M. Topaz and Tyrone Bass suggest five steps researchers can take to make more inclusive choices when collecting and ...
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Cyberattack on PowerSchool Breaches Student Data, Including Social Security Numbers
According to a release from the V.I. Department of Education, the breach was discovered in late December 2024, and involved an unauthorized user accessing and exporting sensitive data. This data ...
The Verge19d
GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. For example ...
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Proposed bill would ban expulsion for missing school, study absenteeism
The committee heard from school experts who expressed the need to collect better data to address the root causes of student absenteeism ... rewarding a kid for bad behavior,” Behning said ...
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PowerSchool Breach Victim Says Hackers Stole All Student Data
The school districts that had their data stolen in the recent cyberattack on PowerSchool say hackers now have access to their previous student and teacher data. The edtech giant provides services ...
The New York Times20d
General Motors Is Banned From Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
By Kashmir Hill The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with General Motors that would ban the automaker from providing drivers’ behavior and geolocation ...
Yahoo Finance20d
PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole 'all' historical student and teacher data
U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed "all" of their historical student and teacher data stored in their ...
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PowerSchool breach worse than thought, company says "all" student and teacher data accessed
Threat actors accessed PowerSchool student information system and stole data on students and teachers in December 2024 Multiple companies confirmed all data, covering as long as they had used ...