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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Education Department sent a message to colleges and universities nationwide Thursday: Any that use data released this year by a massive student voting study risk being labeled violators of a ...

In many K–12 schools today, fragmented student data has quietly become one of the most significant barriers to effective decision-making and day-to-day operations. While digital tools have expanded ...

While artificial intelligence has long supported higher education research initiatives, it’s now expanding into areas that touch student data. Examples include face recognition in surveillance cameras ...

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 ...

Universities must tighten the quality of the data entered into AI models to improve the output generated by tools such as chatbots. Universities have been cautious adopters of artificial intelligence.

Student success professionals at National Louis University in Chicago will have a new tool to help them guide student advising and persistence work, enabling real-time data-based decision-making ...