Educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws, according to a report on the Virginia Tech shootings. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and two other Bush cabinet secretaries…

Describes the Student Developmental Transcript, a formal written record that documents learning useful in employment gained beyond the classroom through involvement in the cocurricular life of the institution. Describes cocurricular life as consisting of clubs, organizations, part-time employment, and other experiences outside confines of academic…

New York's highest court is being urged to overturn a ruling that could make colleges legally responsible for the conduct of everyone they admit. The case arose from the rape and murder of a female student at the State University of New York College at Buffalo in 1976. (MLW)

Reviews legal historical background of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), citing prior cases which established three major common law issues upon which FERPA was based. Discusses legal issues since FERPA's passage: status of private suits, liability and slander aspects concerning student reputation, privileged communication,…

The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development…

Information presented on recent developments in the international recognition of academic credentials includes an overview of Canada's interuniversity programs for international development and summaries of regional committee meetings on international recognition in Europe, the Arab states, and the African states. (MSE)

This handbook describes the Program of Child Welfare and Attendance and School Social Work Services in the state of Louisiana. The first section provides a brief history of services in Louisiana and a description of the program, including its philosophy and objectives, the identification and interpretation of roles and functions of child welfare,…

Following a trend in a number of states, Indiana has begun a project to improve college preparation and encourage high school students to pursue higher education. The effort includes a toll-free hotline, a statewide database for monitoring student characteristics, and standardized testing of basic skills. (MSE)

This pamphlet provides interpretive notes on the principles of student freedom originally developed by a 1967 joint committee representing five associations concerned with higher education. As a result of interassociation meetings in 1990 and 1991 the original statement was reaffirmed and a task force developed these interpretive notes to reflect…