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Center for Digital Democracy
To these ends, CDD has four broad goals: o To enhance public understanding of the changing dimensions of the US digital media system, by explaining the communications options and the public-interest resources that citizens should have at their disposal. o To foster the development of a new generation of activists to work on digital media […]
Your Candidates, Your Issues, Your Decision
The DemocracyNet (DNet) is an interactive website designed to improve the quality and quantity of voter information and create a more educated and involved electorate. A project of the League of Women Voters Education Fund, DNet encourages candidates to address a wider range of issues, and to address those in greater depth, than they might […]
THE EVER-SHIFTING INTERNET POPULATION
A new sense of the shifting Internet population. The online population is fluid and shifting. While 42% of Americans say they don’t use the Internet, nearly half of them either have been Internet users at one time or have a once-removed relationship with the Internet through family or household members. This report focuses on several […]
“Virtual School Report” Launched, Focused on Virtual K-12 Public Education
BALTIMORE, MD – In an effort to help school officials and state and local legislators keep pace with the rapid growth of K-12 virtual schooling, Connections Academy, a leading national provider of high quality, highly accountable virtual public schools, today unveiled the “Virtual School Report,” a newsletter focused on effective virtual education. The quarterly newsletter, […]
New online courses aid tiny schools
Alaska Online, a consortium of nine school districts, has been offering a pilot program of 21 courses for high school students for a year and will start officially this fall. Read the Full Article
Maryland Tuition On Its Way Up
The Maryland Board of Regents yesterday disclosed a package of proposed tuition increases that would raise undergraduate charges by as much as 21 percent over last fall’s rates, amid dissent and confusion over how public colleges should respond to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s order for steep funding cuts.Read the Full Article
Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research
The group, the Public Library of Science, which includes scientists, doctors, researchers and their public supporters, plans to announce legislation on Thursday that would give taxpayers greater access to scientific data.Read the Full Article
Public Library of Science Acts to Increase Public Access to Scientific Research
June 26, 2003 – San Francisco, CA. Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians, is launching a public campaign aimed at making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS argues that the current closed system of scientific publication places the narrow interests of publishers before the public […]