Archive of Articles

Acceptible Use Policies (AUPs)

• DA probes school district's eMail deletion (eSchool News 10/01)
• Six Essential Elements of a School Web Site Policy abstracted from "A Policy on Paper Could Save Your Web Site" by Elliott Levine (eSchool News 12/2000)
  
• ethics and law -- Acceptable-use policies are useless unless strictly enforced David A. Splitt (eSchool News 11/ 2000)
  
• Eight Essential Elements of an Acceptable Use Policy for eMail abstracted from "Who's Got Mail?" by Kathleen Vail (eSchool News 2/2000)

Sunshine Laws

• Board's web feedback criticized Elizabeth B. Guerard, Assistant Editor. (eSchool News 3/2000)
  
• ethics & law: Don't let sunshine laws scorch electronic board meetings David A. Splitt (eSchool News 10/2000)
  
• Private internet bulletin board gets school board members into trouble From eSchool News staff and wire service reports (eSchool News 8/2000)
  
• Private web forum snags school board eSchool News staff and wire service reports (eSchool News 10/2000)
  
• Caution: School Board eMails Often Are Public Records abstracted from "E-Mail, 'Sunshine,' and Public Records" by Margaret A.Chidester and Heather Asplund (eSchool News 8/2000)
  
• DA eyes agency's failure to release school internet logs: Utah Education Network faces sanctions for overwriting data it was ordered to disclose Rebecca Flowers (eSchool News10/1998)

Students & Parents

• Court: Schools must let parents view internet-use logs (eSchool News 11/2000)
  
• School yanks student internet access (eSchool News 5/1998)
  
• Ballad of an EMail Terrorist (c) 1995 Al Rogers Kid Connections
  
• Technology Champions: This library services savant serves up a healthy slice of Parent Internet Education (P.I.E.) eSchool News Staff (eSchool News 5/1998)
  
• Fear of flaming leads school to issue eMail code of conduct to parents By Cara Branigan, Assistant Editor, eSchool News (eSchool News 9/2000)
  
• Teens likely to divulge info on 'net From eSchool News staff and wire service reports (eSchool News 7/2000)

Filtering

• House bill would establish ‘kid-friendly’ web domain (eSchool News 11/2001)
• Commission recommends self-policing, not mandatory filters, to shield kids from web porn By Cara Branigan, Assistant Editor, eSchool News (eSchool News 10/2000)

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

• Protect your schools from liability over COPPA. By David A. Splitt (eSchool News 7/2000)
  
• What Does COPPA Mean or Your Schools? abstracted from "COPPA: A Lawyer Answers Some Basic Questions" by Kevin J. Kuzas (eSchool News 12/2000)

Ethics & Law

• Union demands liability protection Teachers don't want the blame when kids misuse school computers Elizabeth B. Guerard, Associate Editor (eSchool News 9/2000)
  
• Ethics & Law: A pause in the rush to get online might prevent a lawsuit By David A. Splitt (eSchool News 3/1999
  
• Ethics & Law: Internet filtering: No substitute for due diligence By David A. Splitt (eSchool News 8/1998)
  
• Ethics & Law: Use old-fashioned vigilance to fight high-tech indecency By Julie Underwood (eSchool News 3/1998)
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