The US Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) was established to serve as a “one-stop” resource for education stakeholders to learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices related to student-level longitudinal data systems and other uses of student data. Earlier this month, the PTAC released an important document, Protecting Student Privacy While […]
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Student Privacy Best Practices for Use of Online Educational Services
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NAEP: Students Who Use Computers More Frequently Score Higher (Part 1)
April 10th, 2014 byIn 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the first large-scale computer-based assessment in writing. The assessment tasks reflected writing situations common to both academic and workplace settings and asked students to write for several purposes and communicate to different audiences. National results for representative samples of students at grades 8 and 12 […]
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Technology Infrastructure in More than 20% of U.S. Public Schools Rated Inadequate
March 8th, 2014 byA study released in March 2014 by the National Center for Education Statistics, Condition of America’s Public School Facilities: 2012-13, reveals that the technology infrastructure in more than 20 percent of U.S. public schools was rated as inadequate as of the 2012-13 school year. Technology infrastructure in the study was defined as “facility access to voice, […]
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An e-Textbook in Every Student’s Hand by 2017
February 1st, 2012 byLater today, with SETDA Executive Director Doug Levin in attendance, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will join Education Secretary Arne Duncan to unveil the Obama Administration’s “Digital Textbook Playbook” to accelerate the K-12 transition to digital textbooks. USA Today has the scoop: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will recommend today […]