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• Sep 30, 2014 @ 06:15pm

  Re: CIPA

  on Technology Improves And The Internet Expands But School Acceptable Use Policies Still Lock Students Out Of The Benefits

  Actually that's not what CIPA requires at all. Even the U.S. Department of Education has said that CIPA doesn't require the draconian filtering that many districts implement...

• Sep 30, 2014 @ 06:13pm

  Re: redundancies

  on Technology Improves And The Internet Expands But School Acceptable Use Policies Still Lock Students Out Of The Benefits

  That's the complete list, not a compiled list. Every redundancy on there is from the district...

• Sep 02, 2012 @ 04:59am

  Re: Points the public misses

  on Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies

  I would strongly encourage you to read this interview with Karen Cator, Director of the U.S. Office of Educational Technology. She clarifies a lot of misconceptions that school administrators and IT personnel have about CIPA and other federal regulations...
  
  http://bit.ly/NJPN2a

• Sep 02, 2012 @ 04:54am

  Let me clarify

  on Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies

  As the author of this list (and a school law professor), let me clarify. It's not that there haven't been any online predator incidents. It's that there haven't been any reported online predator incidents with kids at school. If you can find one, put the URL of the news story here. See also the work of danah boyd, the Berkman Center, etc.