Sometimes faculty and staff find themselves in situations that aren't clearly defined by FERPA, the federal law that protects student education records. For example, you may have wondered: Can an ...

Privacy protections under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act still apply, no matter where or how school takes place. Micah Castelo is a web editor for ...

Faculty and staff have access to a great deal of student information that is private and protected by federal laws, specifically the Family Educational Rights and ...

REFLECTIONS ON REFORM: Fordham Institute President Michael Petrilli made a splash the other day when he spoke and blogged [ http://bit.ly/1xsqpVB] about ending “the ...

FERPA’s enforcement mechanism is inadequate. FERPA’s primary penalty—in the words of Microsoft’s Director of Education Policy and Programs Allyson Knox—is “all or nothing.” If schools violate FERPA, ...

At the end of 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy ...

Congress enacted the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, in 1974 to safeguard the confidentiality of student “educational records.” But today ...

The movement to build longitudinal-data systems on student achievement has long butted heads with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, better known as FERPA ...

FERPA is the acronym for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Office the Registrar offers two delivery methods for FERPA training. The training is designed ...

FERPA is the acronym for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Office the Registrar offers two delivery methods for FERPA training. The training is designed ...