Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Data generated in the education sector—including information about individual learners, schools, and institutions —can provide important insights into how students progress from cradle to career. Through our Privacy-Enhancing Technologies initiative, we’re providing school districts and education agencies guidance on how to securely use student data to improve service delivery and learner outcomes.
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Through a series of trainings, toolkits and templates, we aim to guide education system leaders and data analysts on how to boost data security to make important research possible while protecting students.
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Georgia Policy Labs
Georgia Policy Labs created a secure hashing tool called SILK to convert sensitive information such as Social Security Numbers into securely-hashed values to enable linkages across government agencies and school districts. This open-source approach enables data joins without exposing personal identifiable information.
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