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On the heels of President Bush’s address to Congress, Secretary of Education Rod Paige gets a warm welcome in Silicon Valley where he touts the administration’s education plan. Katie Dean reports from Santa Clara, California.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the latest dispute over ownership of copyrighted works duplicated on the Internet, Random House sued a publisher of electronic books Tuesday for selling computerized versions of eight Random House texts.
Recently there has been a flurry of media attention on what should be done about the disparity in home computer ownership between our nation’s wealthy and poor households. By sharing experiences from Computers for Youth, this paper attempts to provide some insight into the successes and challenges of running a program that provides inner-city children […]
WASHINGTON – Congressman Ted Strickland today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell regarding comments he made about the digital divide in America. Your comments…showed a lack of compassion for the needs of southern Ohio and other rural communities across the country, Strickland said in the letter. It is disheartening to […]
Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid has co-sponsored a new bill to increase funding for school libraries around the country. The Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Act is designed to ensure that students at all schools have the resources they need to develop reading, writing, research, and computer skills. “Every student in Nevada should […]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.– Education entrepreneurs, teachers, policy-makers, and venture capitalists met last week at the New Schools Summit to discuss the nation’s most pressing education issues. Topics ranged from the convergence of the public, private and non-profit sectors, charter schools, technology in education, assessing student performance and the role of the federal government in education. […]
N A NEW BOOK, A.W. Bates of the University of British Columbia says that colleges will have to reallocate money from other accounts to pay for essential academic-technology projects.
Advocates for the E-rate, a program that subsidizes Internet connections for the country’s schools and libraries, are worried that President George W. Bush’s proposal to consolidate federal education technology programs into a single block grant could stifle its success.
Digital content will be protected under Australian law for the first time from Sunday as changes to the Copyright Act take effect. Until now, digital information has not been specifically protected under copyright law. The new law will give content creators wider powers over the licensing of their work.
Virginian to serve on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee