Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nationwide data breach made public on Thursday includes Frederick County Public Schools student records and class scheduling ...

Addressing fragmented student data is not just an operational improvement--it directly impacts the school-home connection.

Each school year, one important task on a principal’s plate is to review student-achievement data to identify trends and adjust goals. However, several common misinterpretations and misuse of such ...

As school districts increasingly adopt digital learning tools and interconnected technology, safeguarding student data has become essential. Schools store highly sensitive information—such as Social ...

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data. PowerSchool, the ...

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 ...

As online learning platforms become essential in education, protecting student data has never been more critical. From Google Classroom to Nearpod, privacy safeguards and security tools vary widely.

The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in ...

Christopher Gray built Scholly to help students find scholarships. After Sallie Mae acquired it, he says they fired him for objecting to selling users' personal data, including minors' information.

High schools and colleges in the Sacramento region will share specific student data with each other in an effort to increase postsecondary success, according to a news release last month. In addition ...