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Click and post: CST security breach | Thoughts on Public Education

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Click and post: CST security breach

What won't they put on Facebook and Twitter?
By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The Age of Instagram is creating headaches for the state Department of Education and ETS, the contractor for the state’s standardized tests. At least 100 students from 34 school districts had posted images on social media of materials from various state tests they took this week, according to Paul Hefner, spokesman for Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torakson.
For students, the photos may have reflected just another mundane moment in a running record of their daily lives. For the Department, they were a breach that prompted Torlakson to send out a bulletin Friday to remind districts to follow security protocols, which include prohibiting access to cell phones. (They might also ask where the proctors were when