Work Smarter Not Harder: How New York Leveraged Existing Education Services Infrastructure to Comply with New Privacy Laws
What Can States Learn From New York’s Approach to Student Privacy? New Future of Privacy Forum analysis highlights the benefits of New York’s regional, shared-services approach to implementing its student privacy policies. Work Smarter Not Harder provides an overview of New York’s current education privacy laws and infrastructure, which is centered on regional shared service organizations. […]
Educator’s Guide To Student Privacy
The Educator’s Guide to Student Privacy, written by teachers for teachers, covers several topics, including: Why should classroom teachers care about student data privacy? There are legal and ethical restrictions that impact districts, school, and teachers. Traditionally, student data consisted of things like attendance, grades, discipline records, and health records. Access to that data used to […]
IT PASSES: An Education Technology Adoption Framework
The IT PASSES framework was developed to guide meaningful conversations around the safedevelopment and adoption of K-12 online resources. It offers a structured approach to evaluatingeducational tools and platforms. It focuses on eight key areas critical to ensuring the responsible,effective, and sustainable use of technology with students. Each area is explored in its own section […]
The EdTech Service Provider’s Guide to Student Privacy
Schools rely on education technology (edtech) service providers to manage student data and provideservices and tools to help all students learn effectively. Edtech tools enhance students’ learningexperiences in a wide variety of ways, such as helping schools manage learning by streamliningcoursework and gradebooks and using data analytics to monitor progress and provide personalizedlearning. These tools […]
A School Administrator’s Guide to Addressing Deepfakes
Generative AI can pose significant ethical and security challenges for schools, as it can be used to spread misinformation, perpetrate fraud, target students and staff, and undermine trust. Generative AI enables the widespread creation of AI-generated or “synthetic” media. which is increasingly indistinguishable from human-generated or “authentic” content. Perhaps the most concerning type of synthetic […]
Student Data Privacy and Data Ethics Scenarios for School Leaders
Student data privacy and data ethics are essential topics that should be included in School Leader training and professional development. School Leaders’ very role requires them to make daily decisions that impact which student data is collected or revealed, how the data is stored, how data is interpreted and used to make decisions about students, […]
Gramm Leach Bliley Act Data Governance Checklist
Download the GLBA Data Governance Checklist for educators.
A Case Study in K-12 Privacy Best Practices: Utah
FPF’s new case study, Utah Leads the Way in Protecting Student Privacy: A Case Study in K-12 Privacy Best Practices, highlights Utah’s policy efforts to create sustainable student privacy practices. By evaluating Utah’s student privacy policies and interviewing USBE staff and other key stakeholders, FPF’s analysis outlines the practical steps that Utah has taken to establish […]
THE DATAFIED STUDENT: Why Students’ Data Privacy Matters and the Responsibility to Protect It
Author: Kyle M. L. Jones (MLIS, PhD) • Indiana University-Indianapolis (IUPUI) Executive Summary Some higher education institutions (HEIs) are developing their educational data mining and analytic capacities, while others are purchasing technologies to support their interests in analytics. These efforts involve a broad array of practices that many consider to be a form of learning […]
Understanding Student Monitoring Infographic
As schools grapple with the increasing importance of supporting student mental health and ensuring school safety, all while balancing remote instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic, many are turning to student monitoring technologies to meet these goals. In a recent research survey, 81% of K-12 teachers reported that their schools use monitoring software. As schools shifted to […]