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Question | Answer |
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1965 - Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III | Encouraging Libraries to Media Centers |
1981 Education Consolidation and Improvement Act | Block grants for school library/media centers for instructional equipment. Ended in 94-95. |
1995 - Innovative Educational Programs Legislation | 3 yr program of block grants for library media for innovative uses of technology. |
1948 | ALA bill of rights |
1978 | AECT Intellectual Freedom Act |
1953 | Freedom to read and review |
1979 | National Council of English Teachers - Students Right to Read Statement. |
1983 - A Nation At Risk | The report contributed to the ever-growing (and still present) sense that American schools are failing miserably, and it touched off a wave of local, state, and federal reform efforts. |
1976 | Copyright Fair use act |
1984 Sony Vs. Universal | Suits against teachers must prove market would be neg. affected by use of videotaped material (from TV). |
1972 Censorship. NY | In favor of removing of a book reasoning that its removal did not oppose or aid religion. |
1976 Miarcini v. Strongsville City | Ruled against removal of Catch 22 and 2 Kurt Vonnegut novels as a burden on the freedom of classroom discussion. |
Massachusetts v Right to read | Ordered the school board to put back a poetry book that had "objectionable and filthy language". Board has control over curriculum but NOT library collection. |
1980's Zykan v. Warsaw Indiana | Condemned the burning of books with literary merit. |
1982 Supreme Court Island Tree vs. | School board removed 9 books deemed "Anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-christian and just plain filthy" 5-4 ruling ordered them back. |
Information Power | Various edition published by the AASL and AECT. |
Ashcroft vs free speech c | Children Pornography Act expansion. Invalidated CIPA. |
CPPA included the "virtual child". (Child Pornography Protection Act) | Unconstitutional to consider a virtual child real. |
COPA | Child on-line Protection Act. |