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Department officials said abandoning PubScience, an electronic service that cross-indexed and searched roughly 2 million government reports and academic articles, will save the government $200,000 a year because two equivalent services exist in the private sector. Read the Full Article
With Republicans set to control both houses of Congress (not to mention the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court), the shift in power could spell the end of several ed-tech programs that Democrats and some moderate Republicans in the Senate wanted to preserve. Read the Full Article
The joint venture of the American Institutes for Research and the Campbell Collaboration, contractors for the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), convened the first meeting of its new Technical Advisory Group (TAG) in Washington on Nov. 4-5. Among the TAG’s responsibilities are to advise the joint venture in its development of standards […]
Whichever way it goes, the high court ruling will not have a direct bearing on schools, but the decision could influence whether free-speech advocates mount a subsequent challenge to CIPA as it pertains to school computers Read the Full Article
The creation of a standard file format is of significant importance to students, educators, publishers, technology specialists and advocacy groups, according to Robert H. Pasternack, assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services. “It is critical for a uniform format to be established in order to coordinate the efforts of various groups interested in providing […]
Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, has appointed Al Vincent as Associate Administrator for Telecommunication Sciences and Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in Boulder, Colo. In this capacity, Mr. Vincent will serve as Victory’s principal advisor on telecommunication sciences. “Al Vincent has a […]
The bill, which has been sent to President Bush to be signed into law, mirrors an agreement worked out earlier by webcasters and the recording industry, which wants royalties for songs broadcast over the Internet. Read the Full Article
Or at least the part of it standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium, known as W3C, will. That’s according to a document released on Thursday by the W3C’s Patent Policy Working Group. Read the Full Article
The program, called “The i-Safe Safe School Education Initiative and Outreach Campaign” and developed by the nonprofit i-Safe America Inc., is a combination of safety-oriented lessons and community-based outreach activities centered on teaching safe, effective internet use. Read the Full Article
Online schools in Ohio also would receive less state aid if multiple students from the same family enroll in the schools, according to the proposal, which has split GOP lawmakers trying to pass the bill by year’s end. Read the Full Article