By Electronic Privacy Information Center (Own work) [cc by-sa 4.0],via Wikimedia Commons
Data gathering in schools goes beyond the collection of grades, test scores, and attendance. It even goes beyond recording what computer programs students use or what Web sites they visit.
Student “data” now encompasses students’ sleeping habits, health, fitness regimens, alcohol use, prescription drug use, financial situations, feelings, peer groups, interests…the list goes on.
反对这种越来越多的侵犯学生的生活在4月下旬到达众议院的形式2015年学生数字隐私与父母权利法案。立法将禁止某些学生隐私入侵。
As with most social issues, this one is complicated and complex. And as with most laws considered by U.S. politicians, the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015 has stirred controversy. There seem to be possible benefits and detriments to the stipulations of the bill, if passed. Further, some think that the proposed legislation is too strict; others, too lenient.
Many parents of students have voiced discomfort, and even alarm, about the sharing of their children’s information with third parties. According to current law, schools can share collected data strictly for the benefit of assessing and improving education. At its best, this procedure allows legitimate researchers and social scientists to study the results of the collected data and make suggestions for improvements. School districts then enact changes, and the education system improves.
This type of collaboration greatly benefitted the Chicago public-school system, and offers great promise to a current partnership between the Boston public-school district and early-childhood experts at Harvard University. Had the proposed legislation been in place, these collaborations would have been too costly for the schools. Specialized expertise in the field of education would be beyond most districts’ budgets.
新立法将加剧此类合作周围的规则和规定。想象一下，要求学校申请每个父母（或学生，根据他或她的年龄）允许使用某些个人数据，以便在有抱负教育改进的研究中使用某些个人数据的成本（或资源）。本法将阻止财务挣扎的学校或学区参加有价值的合作努力。
This discussion–embodied within the issue of student privacy itself–is simply a small part of the much larger debate of privacy rights in the United States. Join SKS and its JulySpotlight of the Monthin delving into the 2015-2016 National High School Debate Topic:Surveillance: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance.Consider issues such as personal violations and national security; read what political commentator David Frum and journalist Julian Assange have to say about domestic surveillance; and quiz yourself on the country’s use of drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS).
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