Miami's Palmer Trinity School has adopted a new mobile safety platform that provides step-by-step instructions for 18 emergency response plans.
An Ohio private school has taken advantage of a state grant program to deploy a panic button system.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/04/15
Berkman Center fellows Leah Plunkett and Paulina Haduong share their insights into the future of student data privacy. What direction will policy take? What will schools' responsibilities entail?
- By Patrick Peterson
- 01/22/15
"In addition to the purely legal issue, [student data privacy is] really something that school districts should look at from a PR and political perspective and to engage the right people throughout the process," according to attorney Bret Cohen.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/11/14
Twenty schools in two New York counties will be testing out a new emergency response system that connects them directly to police and other public safety responders.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/11/14
Splashtop, a provider of cross-device computing and collaboration solutions, has partnered with IT security provider, Soliton, to develop the Soliton SecureDesktop appliance.
Annual school expenditures on surveillance and access control systems will reach more than $1.1 billion by 2018.
A responsible approach to student data privacy requires careful scrutiny of the agreements that schools make with vendors.
- By Keith R. Krueger
- 11/17/14
Discovery Education and Intel Security have partnered on a three-year initiative, the Intel Security Digital Safety Program, designed to help students make safer decisions online. Educators and parents in the United States and Canada will also be able to participate in a sweepstakes contest, with grants and technology prizes, as part of the program.
Privacy and security attorney Bret Cohen shares how schools and districts â and teachers â need to think about their use of online services that require personal student information.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/13/14