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Data-Mining Faces New Privacy Rules

The new policies aim to close loopholes that the Federal Trade Commission says too often allow websites and online services to gather personal information improperly from students. (February 6, 2013)

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Both scientists and practitioners say school-based research partnerships need to go both ways.
March 15, 2011 - Education Week
The first of a series of outside evaluation reports on the District of Columbia's four-year-old school reform efforts concludes that improving test scores don't tell the whole story.
March 10, 2011 - Education Week
What's needed now, the Data Quality Campaign says, is political momentum to ensure educators can start tracking data by fall.
February 16, 2011 - Education Week
The range and unpredictability of threats to school districts' data systems can be unnerving, making protecting them difficult.
February 4, 2011 - Digital Directions
The Obama administration's new online education dashboard highlights the wrong data, and too much of it—giving the public a less than-succinct summary of school and student performance, Ze'ev Wurman and Williamson M. Evers write.
January 28, 2011 | Updated: March 24, 2012 - Education Week
There needs to be a fundamental realignment of high school priorities based on data and specific expectations of what students must know for college, Jordan E. Horowitz writes.
January 3, 2011 - Education Week
Researchers are becoming increasingly interested in so-called "deep-dive, quick-turnaround" research, which aims to find rapid, concrete answers to specific questions about educational innovations.
December 30, 2010 - Education Week
Researchers find that they can use Amazon.com-style techniques for analyzing customer behaviors to study—and improve—student learning.
December 13, 2010 - Education Week
New data from the Education Department show that school improvement money isn’t just going to urban districts, or for less-drastic strategies.
December 10, 2010 - Education Week
An international study finds that school systems around the world take common paths to go from good to great.
December 7, 2010 - Education Week

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