Improved education outcomes can’t happen “without strong data-sharing partnerships between community organizations and school districts,” StriveTogether’s Jeff Edmondson writes in a blog for Forbes, noting that doesn’t mean forgetting about privacy. Edmondson highlights recommendations including building in responsible data use and protection. “Effective practices around the use of data, especially at the student level, must be embedded in every aspect of the work, and demonstrated by every staff member with data access,” he writes. Separately, the recently introduced Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015 "is certain to drive big debate in the education-technology industry," Associations Now reports.
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