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State Data Systems and Privacy Concerns: Strategies for Balancing Public Interests Jack Mills (2005)
Summary:
Better
institutional systems for collecting and reporting student outcome data
could help institutional, state, and national policymakers improve
those outcomes, yet the collection of data confronts another powerful
public interest: individual privacy. This policy brief, prepared for
Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to increase the success of
underserved groups in community colleges, explores how states can
balance the interests of accountability and privacy. It describes how
the five Achieving the Dream states and several other states have
addressed the collection and use of student record data within the
limits and constraints set by federal privacy laws, with particular
reference to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Achieving the Dream is funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education.
