U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed “all” of their historical student and teacher data stored in their ...

We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years. PowerSchool, which provides K-12 ...

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 ...

In Spring 2023, Professor Dana Willner's DATA 303, Data Visualization students used their data science skills to illustrate data shared on the Student Enrollment Trends page. The dashboards below were ...

In the digital age, nearly all college activities take place online — from interacting with student services to managing financial aid and participating in classroom engagement. As a result, ...

SEATTLE — In a recent survey of K-12 ed-tech leaders, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) found that most are extremely or very concerned about student data privacy but lack the expertise and ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As conversations swirl about how to improve higher education’s return on investment for students ...

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

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Georgia lawmakers won’t move forward with a proposed statewide school safety database that collects information on students who may commit violence. Last month, state House Speaker Jon Burns proposed ...

Jeffrey A. Hayes has received a research grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to study college student suicide. The word “crisis” is used frequently and, I would argue, ...