This report of policy samples is the 17th in a continuing series of kit-booklets issued to help school boards develop written policies in key subject areas. The intent in providing samples is to encourage thinking in policy terms; and to provide working papers to be edited, modified, or adapted to meet local requirements. Policy samples herein…

A new bill, H. R. 1984, a comprehensive legislative approach to privacy issues, would regulate the uses and sources, retention, storage, and handling of personal information in private industry--including colleges and universities. The author explores the issues applicable to higher education and makes proposals that reflect its concerns.…

Discusses assumptions underlying human need for privacy. Provides case studies and teaching strategies related to privacy, constitutional principles, legal cases, and decision making. Strategies include role playing, class discussion, writing, and art projects. (KC)

Discusses ways in which children can be harmed by information collected and analyzed by schools and identifies ways in which the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act has enabled parents to participate in the education of their children. (Author/DB)

Discusses data collection ability of modern technological societies and evaluates the extent to which this ability constitutes an invasion of privacy and freedom. Maintains that social studies teachers have a special responsibility to help students understand pressing social problems such as invasions of indivudual freedom. (Author/DB)

Reports results of a national survey on the use of computerized central registry systems as in child protective services, the perceived advantages and disadvantages of such systems and the extent to which protections have been established against potential abuse of individual civil rights. A need for further study of central registries is…

Presents a parent's perspective that educational research projects in the public schools are potentially dangerous to children because of the risks of invasion of privacy, overtesting, labeling, and disruption of routine. (AV)

Areas of privacy protection provided by FERPA are discussed and related to: coverage of institutions; former students; admissions records and letters of recommendation; exclusion of private records, law enforcement records, and employment records from education records; student access to records; challenges to information in records; disclosure;…

Discusses patterns of child abuse, the role of privacy, and the dangers of family isolation which permits child abuse when stress and parental instability are present. Decries trend away from "instrusive kinship and neighborhood networks," and calls for support for abuse-monitoring systems. (BF)

Female subjects high in private self-consciousness provided more assistance to a person in need than did subjects low on this attribute. "High-private" subjects were less helpful if they were also high in public self-consciousness. Self-reported altruism, reliably predicted the helping behavior of subjects high as opposed to low in…

Asserts that the rational use and management of conflict resulting from the clash of ideas is a sine qua non for social studies teachers. Argues that competent social studies teachers must stop short of violating the personal privacy of students even if the purpose is noble. (JDH)

Serving the public interest is the basis for most state open meeting laws (sunshine laws). To education administrators, the public interest lies in allowing public officials freedom to make decisions according to procedures they determine best meet the needs of their institutions. The conflict among viewpoints is discussed. (MLW)

Describes the information policy framework prescribed by OMB Circular No. A-130, which introduces the distinction between access to information and information dissemination. The discussion covers the use of electronic collection and dissemination of government information, together with the need to safeguard privacy and public access to…

North Carolina's Privacy of Employee Personnel Records Act requires school systems to ensure that school employees and others have access to personnel records while, at the same time, ensuring employee privacy. Provides an overview of the new legislation and identifies some potential problems a school system may encounter in compliance. (MLF)

The first of two articles on privacy considers its development in U.S. tort law and its social and ethical aspects in the context of changing technology. The second, by Linowes and Bennett, examines the role of data-protection as a policy problem using the concepts and approaches of political science. (Author/EM)