[LM_NET] GEN: Internet filter study makes eSchool News

[Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM>]

The results of Lynn Sutton's study were presented at
the AASL study and covered in yesterday's eSchool
News. The site requires free registration. 

Interesting, Sara Kelly Johns

Study: Overzealous filters hinder research
By Corey Murray, Associate Editor, eSchool News
October 13, 2005

"Lynn Sutton, director of the Z. Smith Reynolds
Library at Wake Forest University in North Carolina,
finds that internet filters are apt to block
legitimate educational content. Tech-savvy students,
meanwhile, argue that administrators should have more
faith in their judgment and ability to deal with
inappropriate content, and they blame the school--not
their teachers--for prohibiting them from conducting
sound, unbiased research, the report said."



<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5911>

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