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News of U.S. educational technology policy and legislation Compiled and edited by Leslie Harris, Jee Hang Lee, and Ghani Raines. © ISTE, 2007.

Telecommunications Policy, Legislative,
and Other U.S. Government Resources
Related to Educational Technology

Children’s Online Privacy and Filtering:
COPA (Child Online Protection Act) Commission: www.copacommission.org

Research papers on Internet filtering from the COPA site: www.copacommission.org/papers/

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998: www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm

Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) site for kids and privacy: www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html

Education and Technology:
“An Educator’s Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms” (December 1998): www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/

Closing the Digital Divide: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/digdiv.html

CTCs (Community Technology Centers): http://www.ed.gov/programs/comtechcenters/index.html

Glenn Commission: www.ed.gov/americacounts/glenn

PT³: Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology: www.pt3.org, a U.S. Department of Education initiative for teacher preparation.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is the Regional Educational Laboratory that specializes in educational technology: www.ncrtec.org

Secretary’s Conference on Educational Technology (September 2000): http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf00/agenda.html

Technology Innovation Challenge Grant Program: http://www.ed.gov/programs/techinnov/awards.html

U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET): www.ed.gov/Technology/

E-Rate:
EdLiNC E-Rate Web site: www.edlinc.org; EdLiNC E-Rate Hotline 1.800.733.6860

Schools & Libraries Division of the Universal Service Administrative Company: www.sl.universalservice.org

LearnNet—The FCC’s official page for schools and libraries: www.fcc.gov/learnnet/

“E-Rate and the Digital Divide: A Preliminary Analysis From the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology”—a report from the U.S. Department of Education, authored by Michael J. Puma, Duncan D. Chaplin, and Andreas D. Pape of the Urban Institute, looks at the effects of the federal E-rate program. The report is available online in PDF format: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/PES/erate_fr.pdf

General Government References:
CongressLink: www.congresslink.org

ERIC (The Educational Resources Information Center): www.accesseric.org

ERIC/IT (ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology): http://ericir.syr.edu

FirstGov—one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources searchable by keyword: www.firstgov.gov

Library of Congress (Thomas): http://thomas.loc.gov

National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov

National Library of Education: www.ed.gov/NLE/

Regional Educational Laboratories Network: www.relnetwork.org

U.S. Department of Education: www.ed.gov

U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement: www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/

U.S. House of Representatives: www.house.gov

U.S. Senate: www.senate.gov