From: empower@smart.net
Subject: Edupage, 19 April 1998
In case anyone on this list is unaware of this newslettr, I thought 
you may be interested in this sample, current issue.  Subscription info 
for this free, 3times-a-week publication is at the end.  I recommend 
Edupage as a way of keeping abreast of newsworthy developments related 
to technology.
Regards,
Jamal
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Edupage, 19 April 1998.  Edupage, a summary of news about information
technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a
Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
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TOP STORIES
        FCC's Kennard, NTIA's Irving Say Reject "False Choices"
        Racial Divide On The Net
        Pentagon To Take Stronger Computer Security Measures
        Customized Degrees
ALSO
        Training Teachers To Use Technology In The Schools
        New Specs For Displaying Math On The Web
        Telecommuting To The Executive Suites
        E-Mail Pubs
        Apple "Thinks Different" In Asia
FCC'S KENNARD, NTIA'S IRVING SAY REJECT "FALSE CHOICES"
At the Networking '98 conference co-sponsored by Educom last week, FCC
Chairman William Kennard urged participants to reject the "false choice"
between maintaining reasonable phone rates or charging higher prices to
provide universal service to high-cost areas and low-income customers.
Meanwhile, NTIA chief Larry Irving warned against another false choice of
reasonable rates or providing special "E-rate" discounts on
telecommunications services to schools and libraries.  Both speakers called
for a commitment to both initiatives, with an emphasis on serving schools
and regions where the need is greatest.  "If there is more demand than we
can afford, we must make sure that the poor and rural schools come first,"
said Kennard.  Irving noted that his agency was reviewing 47,000
applications for discounts under the E-rate program.  (Telecommunications
Reports Daily 16 Apr 98)
RACIAL DIVIDE ON THE NET
A new study by Vanderbilt professors Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak
indicates that African-Americans have a lower percentage of access to the
Web and use it less often than white Americans.  The authors conclude that
the disparity isn't solely attributable to education and income levels:
when a group of similar households with incomes below $40,000 were polled,
whites were more than twice as likely than African-Americans to have a
computer in the home.  Among groups with high-school level or less
education, 27% of whites had a home computer, compared with just 16% of
African-Americans.  The researchers did not study why African-Americans are
less likely to have computers, but say they hope that future studies will
examine that issue.  President Clinton's "aggressive plan to wire schools is
only part of the solution -- the other part has to come from industry
itself," says Hoffman.  (Wall Street Journal 17 Apr 98)
PENTAGON TO TAKE STRONGER COMPUTER SECURITY MEASURES
Learning of numerous vulnerabilities in the security of the computers
accessed by its 2.1 million users worldwide, the Department of Defense is
formulating new plans to tighten security systems.  In a recent military
exercise called "Eligible Receiver," cyber attacks were able to access the
military's command and control structure e in the Pacific (and could have
shut it down);  the attacks also could have turned off the entire electrical
power grid in the U.S.  (Washington Times 17 Apr 98)
CUSTOMIZED DEGREES
A survey of 100 business trainers found that 40% of large corporate training
groups plan to create corporate/university partnerships this year, allowing
corporations to negotiate contracts that will encourage colleges and
universities to provide courses and technical degrees customized for a
particular business.  The survey also indicated that by 2000 more than half
of this custom training will be delivered through technologies such as the
Internet and videoconferencing.  (Computerworld 13 Apr 98)
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TRAINING TEACHERS TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS
Microsoft, Compaq, and Computer Curriculum Corporation have joined in an
effort with the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Council of the Great City
Schools to offer workshops to help teachers use computers and the Internet
in their classrooms.  Supporters of the activity say the corporations will
refrain from using the training sessions to promote their own wares, and one
project executive defends corporate involvement in the training sessions by
saying:  "Who else is going to do the teacher training?  No one expects the
school district to write the textbooks.  Nor should you expect them to write
the Internet curriculum."  One education professor, Jeffrey T. Fouts of
Seattle Pacific University, suggests a wait-and-see attitude about the value
of technology in education:  "We've been training teachers in teaching
strategies for years.  Sometimes they go back to the classroom and use them;
sometimes they don't.  The extent to which they will use it will depend on
the educational value of the Internet."  (New York Times 19 Apr 98)
NEW SPECS FOR DISPLAYING MATH ON THE WEB
The World Wide Web Consortium has recommended a new set of technical
specifications for displaying mathematical symbols and equations on Web
pages.  MathML, or Mathematical Markup Language, supplements HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), the standard coding to create Web pages, and is compatible
with XML (Extensible Markup Language).  Web users can download a "plug-in"
that will work with their browsers to view the MathML pages.  <
http://www.w3/org/Math >  (Chronicle of Higher Education 17 Apr 98)
TELECOMMUTING TO THE EXECUTIVE SUITES
No longer is telecommuting something done mainly by people doing data entry
or other lower paying work. At AT&T more than half of the U.S. based
managers telecommute at least six days every month, and a study by market
research firm FIND/SVP says that the average telecommuter has an average
household income of $51,000.  There are now more than 11.1 million Americans
telecommuting, a 39% increase since 1995.  (USA Today 17 Apr 98)
E-MAIL PUBS
The Association for Interactive Media is offering two new e-mail
publications, the Internet Politics Insider and the Research Update Service.
http://www.interactivehq.org
APPLE "THINKS DIFFERENT" IN ASIA
In Hong Kong there will be one rebel missing -- the Dalai Lama -- from
billboards featuring the "Think Different" advertising campaign in which
Apple honors such revolutionary figures as Gandhi, Einstein, Picasso, and
(except in Hong Kong) the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader who
symbolizes resistance to oppression by the Chinese government.  An Apple
spokesperson has defended dropping the Dalai Lama from the Asian campaign by
saying:  "The Dalai Lama really stands for our message in the United States.
But in China, he may not get across the message that Apple is trying to
send."  (New York Times 17 Apr 98)
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(douglas@educom.edu).    Telephone:  770-590-1017
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