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Dear Colleagues . . . This past week I found out that some districts are blocking their teachers from reading criticism of NCLB. It turns out that one company blocks access to my journal at http://nochildleft.com because it is "Forbidden Category: Political/Advocacy Groups." This seems like censorship and mind control to me since the Ed Department's advocacy on behalf of NCLB remains unfiltered despite all the recent headlines about paying a columnist to promote the law. I am curious to see how many members of this list work in districts that have used the filtering product provided by SonicWall and how many people were aware that this company is making decisions about what teachers and children should read and know about political issues. I am in the process of contacting the company to challenge what seems like a heavy-handed and unfair approach to filtering and I am also preparing a major article warning about this trend so it would be helpful if members of the list could send me more information about this product. There are plenty of documents on the ALA Web site decrying this kind of censorship. It violates the rights of the journalist and it violates the rights of the readers. Please write me with stories of how this type of filtering may have come to your school district. Many thanks, Jamie McKenzie Jamie McKenzie Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal http://fno.org Editor, The Question Mark http://questioning.org Editor, No Child Left http://nochildleft.com mckenzie@fno.org 360-647-8759 500 15th Street Bellingham, WA 98225 -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------