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• Data breach at Indiana University: Are colleges being targeted?
• The Problem With Using the ACT as a High School Exit Exam
• 4 Steps Parents Can Take to Create College Savings Rewards

Data breach at Indiana University: Are colleges being targeted? Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:25 PM PST Indiana University is alerting 146,000 students and recent graduates that their names, addresses, and social security numbers may have been exposed in a recent data security breach. But these and other recent breaches at universities "underscore the fact that there needs to be enforceable data security standards," says Khaliah Barnes, director of the student privacy project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. While the privacy of student information is protected under federal law, she says, specific practices for data security are largely left up to universities and the technology sector. When states started requiring public disclosure of data breaches about a decade ago, higher education institutions were "the miscreants" – with huge numbers of breaches, says Fred Cate, director of Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity in Bloomington.

The Problem With Using the ACT as a High School Exit Exam Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:18 AM PST The ACT has stressed out high school students since 1959. Now Mississippi students may have to worry about taking the test even if they just want to graduate high school. Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, state House members, and school superintendents are currently pushing a proposal in the state legislature to use the ACT college test as a high school exit exam for public school students.  If House Bill 767 is adopted, Mississippi would become the first state to set a minimum composite score on the ACT that students would have to meet in order to graduate from high school.

4 Steps Parents Can Take to Create College Savings Rewards Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST A student's participation in saving for college is as much about a being a good scholarship candidate as it is about contributing actual money. His eldest daughter received a scholarship. She was able to use funds from her 529 plan to pay for qualified education expenses not covered by her scholarship, such as textbooks. Ashley, a graduate of the University of Virginia, is pursuing a master's degree in health administration at Johns Hopkins University â and is paying tuition out of her college savings.

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