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Angry teacher caught on mobile
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=3068
A high school student at Brick Township High School in New Jersey used a
video camera phone to record his teacher screaming at kids. The teacher
wanted the kids to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, but one kid
refused to, so the teacher pulled the kid's seat out from under him.
The kid who brought the camera phone in was hoping to catch his teacher
doing something awful enough to get him fired. As it turns out, the kid was
suspended and the teacher has gotten off scotch free.

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ADMINISTRATORS NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS LEGAL
Does you District Internet Use Policy have provisions addressing
disclosure of student personal information on your school site? It should.
Do you know the difference between free speech rights
(including expressing viewpoints that administrators and teachers
maynot like) and free speech wrongs (ex: defamation, harassment)
and are able to teach your student? You should.
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/admin2.html>
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All wired up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1428626,00.html
The US and UK scenes regarding the provision
of wireless internet access to entire communities.
You may find the comparison it gives between Verizon's and British Telecom's
attitudes rather interesting.
 >Plans to cover huge areas with wireless internet access are
 >gathering pace. And, finds Sean Dodson, companies that stand to lose
  ...snip...
 >metropolitan wireless projects have been in the pipeline. BT is
 >fully supportive of these initiatives."

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MARCH IS WOMENS HISTORY MONTH

Special Edition
Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers
Computer Wonder Women
National Women's History Month
What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology!
Best Online Resources For Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
Educating Girls in the New Computer Age
HERSTORIES Classroom Project
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womenspecialedition.html
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  Domain Owners Lose Privacy
  http://go.hotwired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66787,00.html/wn_ascii
  The U.S. government says owners of .us domains can no longer register
using proxy services. Critics say the move violates the First Amendment
right to anonymous free speech. By Kim Zetter.


Senators Boxer, Clinton Unveil "Count Every Vote Act of 2005"
<http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/26/204031/168>
Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.
Senators Boxer, Clinton Unveil "Count Every Vote Act of 2005"
by Hunter Sat Feb 26th, 2005 at 17:40:31 PST
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Barbara
Boxer (D-CA) today unveiled comprehensive voting reform legislation to make
sure that every American is able to vote and every vote is counted.
Senators Clinton and Boxer announced the legislation today in a press
conference joined by Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), who will
sponsor the legislation in the House of Representatives, and voting rights
advocates. [...]


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LITERACY FROM HOME LANGUAGE TO THE STANDARD
Why don't people vote? 50% of all Americans over 65 years old
are functionally illiterate. 60% of the Urban School Children do
not graduate High School of the 40% that do they are only
reading at 4th grade level. Find out more about literacy and
approaches to improving it. Learn how to successfully bridge
from  the Dialect Speakers' home language to the Standard.
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FCC Issues Order and releases Consent Decree to stop VoIP Port
Blocking
The FCC today released an Order and a Consent Decree with Madison River
Communications, LLC in which Madison River agreed to stop blocking ports
used for VoIP and to pay $15,000 to the U.S. Treasury.  Chairman Powell
released a statement noting that this enforcement is the best way to
preserve "Net Freedom".
Chairman Powell's statement can be found at
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-257175A1.pdf
The Order can be found at
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-543A1.pdf
The Consent Decree can be found at
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-05-543A2.pdf


What Do We Want the Interenet to Be?
My weekly Law Bytes column, posted below, highlights several potential
Canadian policies that may create a very different Internet. They include
ubiquitous network surveillance through the lawful access initiative, ISPs
that engage in packet preferencing as in the two cases last week involving
Vonage and Telkom Kenya, a new "extended license" that would require schools
to pay millions of dollars for content that is currently freely available on
the Internet, and rules that make it far easier to remove an allegedly
infringing song than to remove dangerous child pornography. It concludes by
riffing on an old Nortel ad campaign by asking whether this is really what
we want the Internet to be?
The Toronto Star version of the column, titled "Say No To Big Brother Plan
for Internet" is online at http://geistwhatinternet.notlong.com.
I've also posted a freely available, hyperlinked version at
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup/mar72005.html

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