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Items:
Why so few girls in computer science classes?  1/12/03
Hi-tech alternatives to the chalk board.  1/12/03
Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention  NYT 1/2/2003
Mississippi Students Build their own PC's.  Dec 02
Rutgers ex-President Francis Lawrence Back in the Classroom - in Camden.  Dec 17, 2002
Online Help With Homework.
Lessons Learned at doc.com U - many have failed.  May 2, 2002.
New College Courses on Terrorism:  Let the Psychobabble Begin.
Online Gradebooks Keep Parents Up to Date.   Mirror file with link to a demonstration.
schoolsucks.com - an online service for buying homework assignments.
Online Curricular Resources Growing.
Children's Digital Art.
Lessons in Internet Plagiarism.
Students complete senior year of high school by Internet at home.
Education:  from working in mines to learning online.
Power Point Invades the Classroom.
Free Computers in Baltimore for low income school kids.
Government's Internet Subsidies Stretched to the Limit.
Apple offers new IBook laptop for classroom, Dell says Apple is in trouble.
New Software to make Online Tests Secure and Uncopyable (but how do you know who is actually taking the test)?
Online Courses Improve Teacher Technology Skills.
MIT to put all class materials on the open Internet.
Brewster Academy uses computers to raise student achievement.
Colleges Try Distance Learning Mostly with Non-Traditional Students.
Publishers Take Different Approaches to Online Publication.
'Facing History' Online.
Teenagers Try Online Learning.
Protests from businesses over filtering of WEB in schools and libraries.
Skeptic now sees virtue of Teaching Children Online.
Congressional panel studying WEB learning.
On campus, free fast Internet access no longer a given.
Shifts in educational technology policy.
A New Enterprise Joins Growing Community of Online Schools.
Turning to Online Schools for Advanced Degrees.
San Diego Charter School a Model for Technology Leaders.
Looking for a  College on the WEB.
If It's Goodbye Books, Then Hello. . . What?
Few of the Poorest Schools Can Afford Internet Links.
Distance Learning Develops Specific Niches.
Internet Helping Home Schoolers.
For the New College B.M.O.C., 'M' Is for 'Machine'.  Use of Computers in Colleges.
Wireless Networks on College Campuses.  Drexel plans to be the first fully wireless CyberCampus.
Use of Computer Simulations in Teaching About Foreign Policy.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County - Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology.
Use of the WEB to offer Advanced Placement Courses in high schools.
Strings attached in accepting free computers and internet access in schools.
hungryminds.com - "The Smarter Way to Get Smarter"  NYTAd says:  "learn what you want, when you want and how you want.  And if you're not satisfied, we'll give you your money back.  Pretty unorthodox thinking in the world of educaiton, huh?  Then again, we're not in the world of education.  We're in the business of education."
Librarian sees commercialization of the WEB as a threat.
A billionarie plans an online university with free courses.  An article critical of this trend, calling it a regressive trend, towards the rather old era of mass-production, standardization and purely commercial interests.
A report on a year long seminar at the University of Illinois on Distance Teaching with the Internet.
A critical speech reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A proposed WEB site and free computer program for the NYC schools which will be funded by advertising.
A new project for cross-border education.
Why employers want high school dropouts - if they are computer whizzes.
The Book Bag of the Future:  Buy Four Years' Worth of Texts on one Disk.
Should essay tests be written on a computer instead of by pencil?
Growth in Distance Education Courses.
Opposition to classroom computing.
The University of Nebraska starts a "Virtual High School."  (story has links to other similar programs).
Story about plans for an online university from Harper.
Abuse of email at colleges.
Online textbook ordering.
Electronic textbooks.
Advertising  on college Websites.
Electric Schoolhouse's problems.
Do it yourself literary criticism.
Course ratings go online.
A world of distance learning, colleges getting into online courses.
Teachers need computer education.
Blackboard Inc.  where those who can Teach.
Computer Literacy Requirements.
A course on how to study online.
Kentucky has a new program of courses for high school students entirely on the Internet.
Colleges are offering virtual tours to recruit students.
Link to Eschool home page.
Whales in the Minnesota River?  An article on the problems of finding quality information on the Internet.
A story about an Internet Journal for papers by undergraduate students.
A story about the effect of the Internet on the process of applying to college.
 A story about a computer program for grading essays, to be used by the Educational Testing Service.  This relates to the question of artificial intelligence, can a computer make judgments about the quality of a students' work?