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LISC SCI-West Education Assessment

Internet Policy and Culture: Issues Concerning Protecting Children on the Internet

Thesis: Because first amendment protections and laws protecting Internet Service Providers impede a great deal of government regulation, the best way to ensure minors are protected from improper content online is to empower individuals, companies and organizations to take the intiative to self-regulate.

Children's Internet Protection Act

Citation: "Children's Internet Protection Act." 2000. Internet Free Expression Alliance. 4 April 2009. <http://ifea.net/cipa.pdf>.

The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a law passed by Congress that encourages filtering the Internet to protect minors by giving schools and libraries financial incentives to do so. Throughout the text, the legislation defines terminology used in the remainder of the document. It states that schools and libraries cannot use federal funds to buy computers or aid Internet access unless they have policies and softwares in place designed to filter visuals on the Internet that contain obscenity, child pornography and material harmful to minors. There is also discussion of how the government plans to implement the law in schools and libraries and how groups can waive this requirement. An exception to the filtering rule is also provided; schools can disable filtering softwares for research purposes. The law concludes by discussing how schools and libraries need to document and enforce the policies outlined in CIPA, and what the legal ramifications for the schools and libraries are if they do not enforce the policies.

CIPA is relevant to my paper because it demonstrates how the government can constitutionally play a role in protecting children online and it shows governmental support for self-regulation. CIPA, unlike parts of the CDA and COPA, has been ruled to be Constitutional and not in violation of the first amendment, because Congress is providing incentives for schools and libraries to regulate content on their own computers, rather than requiring regulation. Congress seemed to take the Supreme Court’s ruling concerning the CDA into consideration when drafting CIPA, because the law allows filtering of obscene and pornographic material but not indecent material. Encouraging communities to enact regulations protecting children themselves is also a better strategy than governmental regulation because it allows communities to better apply their own standards regarding what is obscene and harmful to minors. The government’s established definitions of obscenity and harm to minors involve applying community standards, so this law does a good job of following past legislative precedents, giving the law even greater validity.

Universities and community schools.

Philadelphia, Pa : Center for Community Partnerships, Penn Program for Public Service, University of Pennsylvania.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Stacks: LB2331.53 .U558, v.2 (1991)-v.6(1999).

Center for Community Partnerships: Fall-Winter, 2002 available online.

Statistical reports of the Department of Instruction for the school year.

Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Public Education. . Statistical reports of the Department of Instruction for the school year. series [Philadelphia, Pa.] : The Board,
Call#: Van Pelt Library 379.7481 P53.26

Public schools of Philadelphia : historical, biographical, statistical / by John Trevor custis.

Custis, John Trevor. . Public schools of Philadelphia : historical, biographical, statistical / by John Trevor custis. series Philadelphia : Burk & McFetridge co., 1897.
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School facilities survey : a report presented to the Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1965.

Saunders, Harry B. . School facilities survey : a report presented to the Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1965. series [Philadelphia : Board of Public Education, 1965]
Call#: Van Pelt Library 371.62 Sa89

CAMPUS-COMMUNITY-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS TO EVALUATE A MULTICOMPONENT NUTRITION INTERVENTION.

"CAMPUS-COMMUNITY-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS TO EVALUATE A MULTICOMPONENT NUTRITION INTERVENTION." Public health reports [0033-3549] 122.4 (2007). 566-.

The article focuses on the partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), local shareholders and the University of Washington in Seattle for the school-based nutrition intervention program Eat Better, Feel Better. One of its goals is to increase community awareness of the benefits of healthy eating. It was built on resources from the university, community and schools to address the problems of program evaluation. Students at the intervention school chose vegetables during lunch.

Blacksburg New School, Blacksburg VA

Kipps Elementary

Blacksburg High School

520 Patrick Henry Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060 v Phone: 540-951-5706 v Fax: 540-951-5714

Commercialization of Schools

This article touches on the increased commercialization of schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. It uses research to try and explain possible affects of commercialization in schools on the students.