Welcome to the
Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community
The right information, in the right place, at the right time.
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Discover the
Student Data Privacy Consortium
...THE tactical privacy Community linking interoperability needs to privacy controls
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Introducing Unity...
With over 20 years of development experience in education, the latest Specification release has been designed BY the educational marketplace FOR the educational marketplace. It supports greater privacy & security control,
has been designed for API development and standardization, and has been created to work WITH other technical data standards, not replicate them.
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What is the SDPC?
The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a special interest group (SIG) of the A4L Community, is partnering with all the organizations you have heard of addressing student privacy – but with a “how” rather than “why” approach. A National Data Privacy Agreement? A Global Education Privacy Standard? Tools to help with the app additions to your ecosystem and their ongoing mgmt? Then join 24 States, 4 countries and thousands of schools! Find out more...
Over 20 years of development experience in education
... but a technical blueprint for enabling diverse applications to securely share data related to educational entities. It is built using 20 years of experience by our volunteer members, developed using open, non-proprietary and transparent processes linked to a quality control Certification Program. 
