[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings News Headlines and Resources


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1)
Bush mismanagement in a $1 billion-a-year Education Department reading program 

Reading First program referred to Justice
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/texasScam.asp
President Bush says NCLB is working, pointing to student-achievement
results from a single subsection of the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) and tentative Reading First data.
The administration appears to ignore other data that suggest the
law has had little or no positive effect on achievement, report
David J. Hoff and Kathleen Kennedy Manzo.

Gov't propaganda
On April 19, the Department released state-by-state data on the
Reading First program.  Students in Reading First schools largely
recorded impressive gains on standardized tests in reading fluency and
comprehension from 2004 to 2006.
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/04/04192007.html


End of the Year Test Information
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/test.html
Approaching the end of the school year, thoughts turn to testing.
Here is some key news from that front.
Nine states (AR, IN, KY, MD, MA, NJ, OH, PA, and RI) have agreed
to share an Algebra II end-of-course assessment from
Pearson Educational Management.
ACT's latest national curriculum survey highlights the persistent gap
between what high schools are teaching and what colleges
want incoming students to know.


2)
Eric Wolf, 85; Computer Pioneer Helped Develop Internet Precursor
Friday, April 20, 2007; Page B07
Eric Wolf, 85, an electrical engineer whose pioneering work with
computers helped usher in the Internet, died April 18 of complications
from brain cancer at the Washington Hebrew Home in Rockville. The
longtime Falls Church resident was also a widely recognized authority
on the history of cartography.

3)
Security IN A DISASTER what are the rules?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITY.html
Command and Control Communications always breaks down

4)
Does Your State have a Technology Plan?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/2000techplan.html

5)
Does Your Kid's School have a disaster plan?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster.html

6)
Disasters can effect entire School Districts
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster2.html

7)
Is there a school Incident Report?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/INCIDENT.html

8)
Safe Schools and the CyberBully
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/safe.html

9)
Tool mines personal data from across Net
http://news.com.com/Tool+mines+personal+data+from+across+Net/2100-1029_3-6177625.html
South African security researcher Roelof Temmingh,
crafted a tool dubbed "Evolution" that associates data
found in multiple search engines and social-networking Web sites such
as MySpace.com and LinkedIn. It also uses other sites' tools to find
information behind Internet Protocol addresses, Domain Name System
entries, domain registration and more.As a result, a search for a
person will associate the individual with results found across the Net.

10)
News and your 21st Century Media Skills
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/News/
WHO IS ALLOWED TO KNOW?
Ballads were responsible for spreading Literacy
On the New Politics of Knowledge
We are now confronting a new politics of knowledge,
with the rise of the Internet and particularly of the collaborative
Web­the Blogosphere, Wikipedia, Digg, YouTube, and in short every
website and type of aggregation that invites all comers to offer their
knowledge and their opinions, and to rate content, products, places,
and people. It is particularly the aggregation of public opinion that
instituted this new politics of knowledge.

11)
Police target the hacker next door
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2059773,00.html
They hunch over laptops in their cars on neighbourhood streets,
tapping into other people's wireless broadband connections for some
free time online, and are fast becoming criminals of the internet age.

12)
Internet 2
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/INTERNETII/NEWS_ARTICLE_ON_INTERNET_1.html>
The latest twist in this soap opera between the two organizations
issued an update on merger talks that were apparently and very
quietly rekindled last month after an acrimonious split late last year.

13)
Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that"
http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester
and turns it on its head. It analyzes the twelve million books
LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. LibraryThing also produces great suggestions http://www.librarything.com/suggester 

14)
Hacker accesses 14,000 records at OSU
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1176885938179160.xml&coll=2
The records of 7,160 former and 6,934 current faculty and staff
members contained names, Social Security numbers, employee
ID numbers and birth dates, the university said.

15)
Hackers used mysterious e-mail to break into State Department
computers
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070418-1421-hackers-statedepartment.html
WASHINGTON - A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide
last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a
mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S.
government's network.

16)
Microsoft: DNS patch to come by May 8... maybe
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/18/HNmsdnspatch_1.html

17)
ISP Collaboration needed On DDOS Threat
http://www.online-casinos.com/news/news4395.asp
Chief techie at Betfair estimates there are now 30,000 malicious botnets
out there.

18)
Cyberattacks at federal agencies draw House scrutiny
http://news.com.com/Cyberattacks+at+federal+agencies+draw+House+scrutiny/2100-7348_3-6177783.html
"We don't know who's inside our networks," subcommittee chairman Rep.
James Langevin (D-R.I.) said at an afternoon hearing here. "We don't
know what information has been stolen."

19)
Naval Academy mids match wits with NSA in cyber war
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/04_20-70/NAV

20)
Disgruntled techie attempts Californian power blackout
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/terrorists_among_us_flee_flee/
A cheesed-off American IT worker was seized by an FBI Joint Terrorism
Task Force on Wednesday for attacking the Californian electric power
grid.

21)
Public Wi-Fi may turn your life into an open notebook
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-consumer22apr22,0,5309582.story?coll=la-home-headlines
The company that provides wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, signals at
Starbucks is T-Mobile USA Inc. It manages about 7,600 HotSpots
nationwide, including in coffee shops, hotels and airports.
On its website, the company warns that communications in the HotSpots
"may be subject to unauthorized interception and are not inherently
secure."

22)
Elgg -- a social network designed by researchers at the University of
Brighton -- are designed specifically for scholarly interaction.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/OpenSource.html

Tools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Tools.html

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