Fall has arrived in the northern hemisphere, summer has (allegedly) come to an end, and school is back in session. The school year brings anxiety for children and parents alike. We worry about assignments, friendships, grades, and, particularly in the U.S., we worry about safety.  Technology can be...

More than 20 school districts have teamed up with Common Sense Media to establish a rating system for the privacy policies of educational-technology products, Education Week reports. The “Common Sense Privacy Ratings Initiative” will be announced at a conference in June and operationalized later thi...

The New York Times reports Reps. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Luke Messer (R-IN) plan to introduce legislation today to limit how education-technology companies can use data collected about students in grades K-12. The Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act would prevent companies that provide di...

The New York Times reports on classroom technology for students and teachers and the apparent industry-wide gap in data security and privacy protection. One software engineer with two kids in elementary school said, “A lot of education sites have glaring security problems,” adding, “A big part of th...