Fixing FERPA: Distinguishing Between Core & Secondary Technology Uses
Distinguishing Between Core & Secondary Technology Uses June 2024 Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, Amelia Vance, and Casey Waughn CC BY-NC 4.0 Schools use technology to take attendance to ensure they create accurate records of which students are present, and FERPA protects this personally identifiable information (PII). Students might wear heart monitors as part of gym class, which also creates PII. FERPA protects this very different type of PII in the same way and to the same degree that it protects attendance data. A fundamental problem with FERPA is that it includes all-or-nothing protections for data regardless of why the […]
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