Monday, July 1, 2002

The upcoming International Conference of the Learning Sciences has posted its call for workshop proposals and dissertation consortium applications. Both are due July 31. (ICLS is October 23-26 in Seattle.) 10:12:30 AM     TAPPED IN, a real-time meeting space for teachers and educators, is hosting a Summer Carnival on July 17. This is a clever way to learn more about TAPPED IN and the resources it provides. 10:07:31 AM     I've been looking for public encryption libraries for Inquirium's software development efforts. (We use encryption in our registration process.) The best resource I've found so far is Crypto++. Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography is recommended companion reading. 10:04:34 AM     Last week, the Supreme Court shifted the debate over school vouchers back to states, opening the door to much wider use of vouchers to support public funding of private and religious schools. The NYTimes discusses the pragmatic implications of this ruling. I'm particularly interested to see what kind of accountability measures are put in place. Given the current focus on assessing the heck out of public school students, will private schools accepting public vouchers be held to the same standards? 9:57:31 AM

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