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ISTE | February 2008: Washington Notes
News of U.S. educational technology policy and legislation, posted as a service of ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education
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The budget proposed $59.2 billion for the U.S. Department of Education in FY09 and, for the fifth consecutive year, called for the elimination of the primary source of federal funding for educational technology, the $267 million Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program. The Administration offered a similar rationale for eliminating EETT as it did last year: the program is "small, narrowly focused, ... (has) not demonstrated results, (does) not align with national priorities
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The only winners in the Administration’s budget were large programs like Title I, IDEA & Reading First, all of which received nine-figure increases.
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Issue and Action Centers
A robust and targeted federal investment is needed to address these needs and goals, and the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program (Title II part D of NCLB) is an integral component of this national support. Restoring funding for the EETT program to....
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A robust and targeted federal investment is needed
to address these needs and goals, and the Enhancing
Education Through Technology (EETT) program (Title
II part D of NCLB) is an integral component of this
national support. Restoring funding for the EETT program
to a minimum of $496 million, its FY 05 funding level,
is necessary to meet educational goals and needs. -
implementation of effective and appropriate
educational software and digital content for use
in curriculum, instruction, and classroom/school
administration, - 1 more annotations...
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Section 108 Study Group Issues Report - The Library Today (Library of Congress)
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Section 108 of the Copy¬right Act of 1976, which provides libraries and archives with specific exceptions to the exclusive rights of copyright owners, was enacted in the pre-digital era. At that time, works were created and distributed primarily in analog format, and li¬brary and archives copying consisted of photoduplication and microform.
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U.S. Copyright Office - Information Circular
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In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized
the copyright system in the Library of Congress. No legislation was more
important to the development of the Library than that law, which required all
authors to deposit in the Library two copies -
- July 1, 1909
- Effective date of third general revision of the copyright law. Admission
of certain classes of unpublished works to copyright registration. Term
of statutory protection for a work copyrighted in published form measured
from the date of publication of the work. Renewal term extended from 14
to 28 years.
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Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating - WSJ.com
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The movement started in the late 1990s, inspired in part by the "open source" software movement, based on the notion computer programs should be free. Open-source software now powers more than half the world's servers and about 18% of its browsers
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"Let's try to build on the momentum of open-source" software, David Wiley, an associate professor of instructional technology at Utah State University, recalls of the thinking among academics in 1998 when he joined up.
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Legal Frameworks and Technological Protection of Digital Content: Moving Forward Towards a Best Practice Model | Berkman Center
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the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA sec. 1201)
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techPresident – Who Will Be America's First TechPresident? A Challenge to the Candidates
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3. Declare a “Net Neutrality” standard forbidding Internet service providers from discriminating among content based on origin, application or type. Companies that provide access to the Internet should not be allowed to provide content and services where they will be tempted to prefer their own over what is available from others.
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Technology | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden understand the immense transformative power of technology and innovation and how they can improve the lives of Americans. They will work to ensure the full and free exchange of information through an open Internet and use technology to create a more transparent and connected democracy. They will encourage the deployment of modern communications infrastructure to improve America's competitiveness and employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems -- including improving clean energy, healthcare costs, and public safety.
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