US/ND-4: Re: SCANS and Universal Service
Re: SCANS and Universal Service
Bill Hatchett (hatchett@k12.colostate.edu)
Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:50:43 -0600 (MDT)
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Betty Dawn Hamilton wrote:
> educators at the grassroots levels made much to do over the report. A
> colleague and I presented some staff development workshops right after it
> came out, and obviously, no one in our groups had heard of it.
>
> However, those in our workshops clammored for more information, addresses,
> and phone numbers -- that was in Feb of '93. We had copies of the report
> in the Fall of '92 because that was when we started planning the
> workshops, but then WE were both users of the internet at that time. I
> don't remember if we heard of it there or where we were initially
> introduced to it -- perhaps it was at a conference since both of us are
> active participants in such.
>
Somehow I am surprised that this information has not been out a
lot earlier. I would, however, also wonder how much politics had to do
with it. As I remember, there was a "Sandia Report" which has not been
released. Are we still under the thumb of politicians who want to control
education?