A new report from CoSN examines gaps and opportunities in student data privacy at schools and districts across the country. The 2025 National Student Data Privacy ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

Worcester Public Schools administration has expressed clear commitments to taking steps to increase transparency around ...

For example, a social media platform specifically targeting children may have different obligations from an online retailer that only incidentally reaches children. There are also federal student ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Today's schools are no strangers to technology. What began ...

WASHINGTON, DC (October 15, 2024) – The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) today announced that the Illinois Learning Technology Center (LTC), a program of the Illinois State Board of Education, ...

For every aspect of a student’s life, there’s a tech company trying to digitize it. Inside the classroom, online tools ...

Protecting student data is critical for school district IT leaders, but many cite leadership and training gaps, along with time and manpower, as obstacles in that ...

Many school district technology leaders are struggling to establish fundamental student data privacy practices, partly due to a lack of support from the rest of the district, concludes a new report ...

On the cusp of Halloween, a new tradition is gaining attention in the ed-tech space: the Scary Apps list, compiled each October by the nonprofit EdTech Leaders Alliance (ETLA) to warn educators and ...

Nearly three quarters of ed-tech leaders in the U.S. who oversee student data privacy for their district don't have that task in their job description, and 17 percent of them have no training in the ...