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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Classrooms with the desks at a safe distance of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New technologies in education have created a huge amount of data that, when used effectively, can have a major impact on the functioning of an institution and the academic achievement of students.

In educational data mining, educational data extraction and analysis, as well as learning analytics, it is very significant to evaluate the student’s performance in various aspects for enhancing the ...

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 ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. Higher education institutions seeking to manage the student lifecycle using data are ...

BOSTON — A Billerica-based educational software company is facing a putative class-action lawsuit in which the plaintiffs allege the company has been improperly harvesting and sharing student data.