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This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy's administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks - the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.
This week is the education issue. There are some very well written articles and online the photo essay of classroom technology through time is turned into an interactive timeline.
It's one of the inevitabilities of modern corporate life: being stuck on a team that keeps discussing things you already know, unable to come to an agreement on how to measure progress, much less on how to make any
But what if you don't just want something massaged, manipulated or suppressed? What if you want it gone? Is it possible for an ordinary person to get some damaging tidbit entirely erased from the Web?
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 gives almost total immunity to Web sites
This website is a virtual convener. It facilitates a 'handshake' between teachers interested in cross collaboration project. The comforts in connectivity, constructivism, and collaboration make this 'handshake' more intelligent. This virtual convener is based on connecting teachers using more than simply the grade level or location of classrooms.