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Journal of Teacher Education

Journal of Teacher Education
-from Sage Publications
Holdings: 1999-

Journal of Educational Psychology

Journal of Educational Psychology
-from PsycARTICLES
APA Journal.
Holdings: 1910-

Education and Urban Society

Education and Urban Society
-from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Holdings: 1999-2005

Urban Education

Urban Education
-from Sage Publications
Holdings: 1999-

Fact Sheet -- Investing in Innovation Fund

New Grant Opportunity: Investing in Innovation Fund/DoE

Local educational agencies (LEAs) (including charter school LEAs) and nonprofit organizations working in collaboration with one or more LEAs or a consortium of schools.

The program will support efforts to bring to scale educational practices with significant evidence of success in improving student achievement and support the development, implementation, replication, and further evaluation of promising innovative practices. The program will not support the simple expansion of well-established and resourced programs.

LISC SCI-West Education Assessment

EBSCOhost: Lights, Camera, Action!

The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age by William McGeveran, William Fisher

McGeveran, William and Fisher, William W., "The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age" (August 2006). Berkman Center

Research Publication No. 2006-09 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=923465

Description:

This is a report on a yearlong study produced by The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It looks at the obstacles that Fair Use law and copyright owners create in the process of attempting to further develop the full potential of the educational uses of technology. The report identifies four main problematic areas:

a. The lack of clarity within the copyright law.

b. The large adoption of digital rights that keeps users from accessing content.

c. The increasing amount of licensing that creates mounting paperwork for users to overcome.

d. The extreme practices by gatekeepers.

Analysis:

This report speaks of the problematic nature of copyright laws and current practices of Fair Use. It informs the readers about the great wall that is being created between students and the materials that should be available for their education and about the perils that such a state of affairs brings to the future of education. At the same time, the report effectively documents and clearly identifies the top four obstacles. Thus, it gives readers a reachable solution and concludes with a series of sound recommendations that if applied, will bring much clarity and fairness to the tense relationships between copyright owners with professors, scholars and artists who claim Fair Use.

Will Fair Use Survive

"Will Fair Use Survive?" (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2005).

www.fepproject.org/policyreports/fairuseflyer.html

Description:

This study conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of law researched the causes and consequences of the increasingly heavy hand that is being exercised by copyright and trademark owners on limiting Fair Use. The study highlights the importance of preserving Fair Use for the benefit of democracy, the public in general and to ensure that "the owners of intellectual property cannot close down the free exchange of ideas." It states that copyrighting is a confusing arena for users and one in which the powerful can overstep limitations of Fair Use. It can also be a permissive arena in which intellectual property owners can exercise undue authority. The study concludes with a series of normative and legal recommendations to improve the standing for the users and encourage copyright owner to exercise restraint.

Analysis:

The study's central team is helping the reader to understand the increasing pressures facing Fair Use consumers and the urgent need to take action to prevent copyright owners from eroding the establish laws of Fair Use. It bases it claims on research that points out the weakening of Fair Use law as well as the fact that intellectual property owners have effectively developed an atmosphere of fear around it. By doing so, they have deterred and ultimately limited the free exchange ideas. The study documents several examples of big corporations taking action against individuals whom they claim had violated their intellectual property rights. These examples underscore the unequal legal status that individual users face when attempting to claim Fair Use. Finally, the study questions the survival of Fair Use under the current practices.

"The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines."

Crews, Kenneth D. "The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines." Ohio State Law Journal 62 (2001): 599-702.
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/lawjournal/issues/volume62/number2/crews.pdf

Description:In this article, Dr. Crews looks at the historical development and use of guidelines in Fair Use. The author uses government documents and court rulings to demonstrate that the guidelines are basically irrelevant to the Fair Use and Copyright laws. Furthermore, the article sets out to demonstrate that in practice such guidelines are an obstacle in the development of truth and understanding of the Fair Use laws.

Analysis:The article criticizes the development of guidelines, because as Dr. Crews demonstrates well, they have not been of help to Fair Use users and have not clarified or aided anyone who has faced the Fair Use law. The author's argument goes further stating that guidelines or the illusion of the guidelines indeed have mislead the consumers (the public) into believing that they possess an agency value and that they would be universally recognized in a court of law. Dr. Crews documents how such has not been the practice in reality and that in fact certain users would have been better served if guidelines were not employed at all and they just focused strictly on the preexisting laws.

News from the Future of Public Media -- Center for Social Media at American University

News from the Future of Public Media Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on May 7, 2009 at 4:12 PM.http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/blogs/future_of_public_media/dmca_fair_use_and_educators/

Summary:

This news report from The American University Center for Social Media reports on the recent efforts of media professors and professor from other disciplines to obtain renewals and extensions on exceptions in copyright law. After battling industry lawyers three years ago, the reports say professors such as Dr. Peter Decherney are again in the courtroom to once again attempt to make cases on behalf of educators and their students.

Analysis:

Coming for the Center for Social Media the report is very sympathetic to the professors who are trying to convince the industry and the lawmakers that when it comes to education, the rules for copyright use should be different, because (among other things) it is in the best interest of society, and because profits are not derived as a result of materials used in the classroom.

The Growth of Intellectual Property:

The Growth of Intellectual Property:A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United StatesWilliam W. Fisher III. forthcoming in Eigentumskulturen im Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property99/history.html

Description:

This publication is best described as an historical and outlined recompilation of who or what created legislation such as copyright law and intellectual property. It includes the rights to protect an author's "original" work as well as the protection of celebrities who wish to profit from their own image.

Analysis:

William W. Fisher's publication on the historical growth of intellectual property in the United States summarizes the history of copyright law while at the same time takes the reader on a journey that both explains and criticizes the forces that had taken copyright law to the place that it occupies today. Fisher identifies three main forces that impact the growth of intellectual property: economics, ideology and politics. He consistently emphasizes that for the most part and throughout the entire process, the consumer (the public) has been left out of the discussion. Thus, the growth of copyright law has been primarily developed and described by those having a personal interest in it and wish to profit from it. Dr. Fisher calls into questions ideas such as "original writing" pointing out that writers always support and draw their work from previous work. This is a very well documented and well written article that at the same time points out the problems with intellectual property and on some level encourages readers to develop their own agency in order to prevent the erosion of consumer protections such as Fair Use.

Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians | Berkman Center

Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians. Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Berkman Fellow.http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2008/12/dulong

Description:

A project launched by Harvard University Berkman Center for the Internet and Society in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) aims to develop a distance learning course in copyright law for librarians. The idea is to update librarians on the newest and most up-to-date practices and technologies when it comes to copyright law. The materials and content for the course will be delivered through a Commons Internet platform. Already 11 librarians from 11 countries had tested the early version of the course.

Analysis:

The distance learning model would allow librarians from around the world to access the information and educate themselves first and then their patrons about the uses and abuses of copyright laws. With some confusion surrounding the issue of copyright and fair use, it is a step in the right direction to educate librarians who are both a gatekeeper and a link between the institutions and the general public.

The Pros and Cons of an 'Educational Fair Use' Project (Luncheon Audio) | Berkman Center

The Pros and Cons of an 'Educational Fair Use' Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow, speaks on "The Pros and Cons of an 'Educational Fair Use' Project" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2008/02/hyde

Description

In this video The Berkman Center for Internet and society of Harvard University and Dr. Lewis Hyde are discussing the problems with the laws, guidelines and practices related to fair use in education. Dr. Hyde speaks of the historical and current confusion around fair use in education and the negative consequences that such confusion has created for professor and instructor in higher education. The impact as Dr. Hyde discusses can be found in areas such as free speech, academic freedom and the quality of instruction. At the same time, Lewis Hyde is calling for an educational fair use project to be conducted by educators who will have small groups that will use their classrooms and instructional needs as guidelines to determine what should or should not be fair use in education. Such a project will then be used to negotiate with owners in good faith and with the goal of community service in mind.

Analysis:

Dr. Lewis Hyde from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of Harvard University is in this video advocating for changes and measures to prevent owners from eroding fair use, free speech and academic freedom. In his presentation, Dr. Hyde effectively documents the history that brought fair use to this point of conflict while at the same time attempts to clarify the laws that regulate copyrighting. Professor Hyde's presentation also very clearly describes step-by-step the guidelines that one could use in order to conduct a project for fair use in education.

Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/code_for_media_literacy_education/ :

Discusses fair use in media literacy education, appropriate uses for educators and students of fair use when it comes to using copyrighted materials in order to teach media literacy. It also clarifies what benchmarks are as used by lawyers and judges to decide what is fair use as well as the myths and facts about fair use in the classroom. Finally, it encourages educators to be leaders, not followers in the process of establishing the best practices of fair use in education.

Analysis:

The article is aimed at educators with the purpose to educate teachers about the guidelines of fair use in the classroom. The principal goal of the article is to encourage educators to use technology in the classroom and to contribute to the current dialog and process of establishing best practices in fair use in education and in particular media literacy. The underlying goal of the article is to call on educators (uses) to participate in the conversation about fair use in order to create an environment where all educators feel more comfortable using the media and therefore, have students and the public in general take advantage of the benefits of media literacy.

Educating Cataloging Professionals in a Changing Information Environment

AUTHOR: Ingrid Hsieh-Yee
TITLE: Educating Cataloging Professionals in a Changing Information Environment
SOURCE: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 49 no2 93-106 Spr 2008

"The information environment of the twenty-first century is highly competitive. This article addresses how cataloging education should be provided for the profession to stay relevant and competitive in the digital age. To provide a context for considering cataloging education, it describes important changes and trends in the information environment and summarizes discussions and debates within the profession. It identifies competencies cataloging professionals need to develop and offers strategies to ensure the future of the cataloging profession. Specifically, it discusses how to raise awareness and appreciation for information organization among students and non-cataloging educators, how to prepare graduates with different levels of expertise in information organization, how to cultivate leaders for the profession and produce more cataloging educators, how to collaborate in teaching and researching information organization issues, and how to engage stakeholders -- practitioners, educators, employers, funders, and professional groups -- in the preparation of cataloging professionals."

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Logan Hall (built 1873), interior, classroom (1949)

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Sadie T. M. Alexander (1898-1989), B.S. 1918, A.M. 1919, Ph.D. 1921, LL.B. 1927 (1921)

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Antiwar protestors on College Hall after Nixon's announcement of United States involvement in Cambodia (1970)

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School of Education, Class of 1920

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Penniman Library of Education, Bennett Hall (no date)

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Illman-Carter School, exterior (1928)

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Illman-Carter School, demonstration kindergarten(1928)

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Illman-Carter School, demonstration school playground (1935)

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Student protest against apartheid, to encourage Penn Trustees to divest from South Africa (1985)

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Classroom, students (1960)

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School of Education, Class of 1915

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Graduation (1982)

Book Review Sources - Research Guide

Book Review Sources - Research Guide
A selective bibliography of sources for reviews of works in the social sciences and humanities.

Internet Policy and Culture: Issues Concerning Protecting Children on the Internet

Thesis: Because first amendment protections and laws protecting Internet Service Providers impede a great deal of government regulation, the best way to ensure minors are protected from improper content online is to empower individuals, companies and organizations to take the intiative to self-regulate.

Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Minds

Citation: Thierer, Adam. "Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Minds." Version 3.1. Fall 2008. Progress & Freedom Foundation. 5 April 2009. <http://www.pff.org/parentalcontrols/Parental%20Controls%20&%20Online%20Child%20Protection%20[VERSION%203.1].pdf>

Thierer’s document covers a variety of aspects and issues relating to parental control of children’s media consumption. Different methods of controls are discussed, including informal rules implemented by parents, ratings systems, filtering and monitoring software, increased media literacy, self-regulation by companies and governmental regulation. Much of the document relates to media other than the Internet, but the Internet is discussed, particularly when describing different types of filtering programs and the Internet’s relationship to the problems with governmental regulation. Because no one method of parental controls is completely effective, Thierer concludes that parents take an interdisciplinary approach when regulating their children’s media content, and employ a combination of strategies. Educational and empowerment and informal strategies have the added bonus of being the least likely to restrict freedom of speech. There is also a discussion of how to protect children from sexual predators online. Age verification and extensive data monitoring are seen to be a poor remedies, while the right solution is determined to be “education, empowerment and enforcement.”

This article, much like some of the other documents, places an importance on efficacy and education as optimal ways to protect children from the dangers of the Internet. The focus of the ineffectiveness of other types of controls relates to questions concern those methods’ constitutionality which supports my theseis. The document is a particularly good source because it is very detailed and thoughrough in its analyses of the types of contols. This article also helps to better compare and contrast the views of Thierer and Palfrey, who co-authored another source. While they may have disagreed about reforming CDA 230, the two men both supported internal regulations by parents and community members and desires for non-governmental groups to come up with their own strategies concerning controlling content. Thierer is perhaps more skeptical of technology than Palfrey is, and he places more of an emphasis on educating and empowering parents and children about how to optimally use the Internet.

Rights and Responsibility: Protecting Children in a Web 2.0 World

Citation: Majoras, Deborah Platt. “Rights and Responsibility: Protecting Children in a Web 2.0 World.” Keynote Address at Family Online Safety Institute. 6 December 2007. Federal Trade Commission. 6 April 2009. http://ftc.gov/speeches/majoras/071206fosi.pdf.

This document is the copy of a speech made by the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission describing methods used to protect children from dangers lurking online, including harmful content, cyber bullying, and privacy invasion. After describing the media use of children and some of the dangers they face online, Majoras summarizes the law enforcement efforts the FTC has taken to prevent exposure to harmful content. The laws the FTC works to enforce have provisions including requiring adult content to be notified as such in the e-mail tagline and preventing websites from asking children too much personal information. Majoras then describes the FTC’s push and efforts to educate and empower parents and children to stay safe. These efforts are viewed by the FTC as important because first amendment restrictions will prevent the government from being able to completely restrict dangerous content themselves. Marjoras also said that it is important for companies to self-regulate content. Majoras concludes by stating that a multidisciplinary approach is needed in solving this problem.

This article is important in the broader context of regulating Internet content for children, because the FTC is a major governmental organization involved in the issue. A governmental organization believing that education and self-regulation needs to supplement governmental regulation enhances the importance of education and self-regulation, which could be seen as an alternative to the government. This article gives good specifics about the role of the FTC in law-enforcement and education, and describes different features of education programs and self-regulating devices; those details could be useful for figuring out the absolute best way to determine how to protect children. Although this article was written by someone in the Bush administration, it is likely that the opinions of Obama’s FTC workers are not too different; protecting children from harmful content on the Internet is a bipartisan issue.

Children's Media Policy

Citation: Jordan, Amy. "Children's Media Policy" Children and Electronic Media.Volume 18 No. 1. Spring 2008. pp 235-355. 5 April 2009. http://www.futureofchildren.org/usr_doc/18_10_Jordan.pdf.

Jordan’s article gives an overview of how media policy concerning children is developed and shaped, and what is and is not effective about it. The article begins by discussing how events and public opinion changes can motivate the government to enact policies protecting children, and how outside groups influence these policies. It outlines how the three branches of government work together to shape these policies, and what the role of the FCC and the FTC are in enforcing the laws. The article then describes motivations by media industries to self-regulate content, types of self-regulation, and how self-regulation and government regulation interact with each other. While a combination of legislation and self-regulation seems to be the inevitable and most logical way to regulate new media, Jordan thinks these actions are still largely ineffective; they are not enacted properly, little is known about media habits and production of material online is becoming increasingly decentralized.

While much of the article discusses policies relating to media other than the Internet, the article is useful as an overview of the formation process for children’s media policy, especially because it contains useful charts. The similarities and differences between the Internet and older forms of media are important to note in order to figure out what types of regulations used on other forms of media could and could not be applicable to the Internet. For example, ratings systems akin to the ones established for television shows and video games would likely not be a good way to regulate Internet content. So many websites are created on a regular basis that it would be impossible to assign ratings to all of them. This article supports my thesis because it describes issues relating to the regulation of Internet Service Providers. Perhaps it also provides a counterargument to my thesis, however, because the author does not think that self-regulation is necessarily effective.

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Education Full Text

Education Full Text
Indexes education journals, 1983 - present. Some full-text. Topics include: Arts, Comparative Education, Competency-based Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, Language Arts, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher Relations, Preschool Education, School Administration, Science and Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, and Teaching Methods.
Holdings: 1983-

Revisiting the Medical School Educational Mission at a Time of Expansion

Summary of Macy Foundation report

Medical Schools Should Re-Examine Admissions and Training Methods, Experts Say

A report released on Thursday by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, "Revisiting the Medical School Educational Mission at a Time of Expansion," calls on medical schools to adopt sweeping changes in order to attract students of more diverse economic and ethnic backgrounds, train them in community settings as well as hospitals, and, in some cases, compress the time it takes to become a physician.

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Schoolroom, Andrew White Tuer, History of the Hornbook, 1896

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Schoolroom, Andrew White Tuer, History of the Hornbook, 1896

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Cherokee Alphabet, 19th C.

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Benjamin Rush, A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania, 1786

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Chemical Lab & Lecture Room, Medical Department, University of Pennsylvania

Proving the Benefits of Peer Instruction :: Inside Higher Ed

as many professors incorporate "peer instruction" designed to encourage students to discuss concepts with, and learn from, each other. There, as elsewhere, though, many other professors remain skeptical about new technologies and new teaching methods.

Learn and Serve America Higher Education FY 2009

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Illman-Carter School, demonstration kindergarten, group photograph (1928)

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Improving Literacy Through School Libraries

Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 / David Wallace Adams.

Adams, David Wallace. . Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 / David Wallace Adams. 0700607358 (alk. paper) series Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1995. Call#: Univ Museum Library MUSEUM E97.5 .A35 1995

Richard Henry Pratt and American Indian policy, 1877-1906; a study of the assimilation movement.

Gilcreast, Everett Arthur, 1932- . Richard Henry Pratt and American Indian policy, 1877-1906; a study of the assimilation movement. series [New Haven] Yale University, 1967 [Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1974] Call#: Van Pelt Library E93 .G55 1974

Battlefield and classroom; four decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904. Edited and with an introd. by Robert M. Utley.

Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924. . Battlefield and classroom; four decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904. Edited and with an introd. by Robert M. Utley. series New Haven, Yale University Press, 1964. Call#: Van Pelt Library E97.6.C2 P89 1964

Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 / Robert Francis Engs.

Engs, Robert Francis. . Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 / Robert Francis Engs. 0812277686 series Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. Call#: Van Pelt Library F234.H23 E54

Alexander Crummell : a study of civilization and discontent / Wilson Jeremiah Moses.

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942- . Alexander Crummell : a study of civilization and discontent / Wilson Jeremiah Moses. 0195050967 (alk. paper) series Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. Call#: Van Pelt Library E185.97.C87 M67 1989

Educating the disfranchised and disinherited : Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute : 1839-1893 / Robert Francis Engs.

Engs, Robert Francis. . Educating the disfranchised and disinherited : Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute : 1839-1893 / Robert Francis Engs. 1st ed. 1572330511 (perm. paper) series Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LC2851.H313 .A764 1999

Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923 / Donal F. Lindsey.

Lindsey, Donal F., 1951- . Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923 / Donal F. Lindsey. 0252021061 (alk. paper) series Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995. Call#: Van Pelt Library E97.65.V8 D56 1995

Desert immigrants : the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 / Mario T. GarciL