Published on: Wired
31/07/09
by Ryan Singel

Are you a geek looking to save money on your summer vacation? Well, the FCC has a few summer blockbusters for you over the next month or so — 18 national broadband plan hearings, specifically — that you can watch from home for the perfect geek stay-cation. (You could also spend a month in D.C. attending the free workshops, but that might be a bit excessive.)

Published on: KGMB 9
31/07/09
by Jared Isamu Kuroiwa

Okay, so I am on the older end of tech… My career spans playing on TRS-80s and my first contract was with JIMAR (SOEST) at UH Manoa writing dBase III code for journal tracking right out of high school. But because of my interests and my position at the station, I tend to keep up with technology around us. I joke that I have an old Motorola Qm… but I have it because it can do Flash and I can monitor some of the systems at the station and on the web (iPhone isn’t there quite yet).

Published on: Change
31/07/09
by Jonathan D. Becker

Fifty-five years ago, the United States Supreme Court declared that providing “separate but equal” educational opportunities to students based on race denied students of color the equal protection of the law. Largely, the holding in the Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education has been examined with respect to equity of access to the institution of schooling generally. And, while much of the progress that was achieved by eliminating legally enforced (de jure) school segregation has been erased by de facto housing segregation patterns that beget de facto school segregation, it is also clear that students of color continue to be denied equal educational opportunities within the institution of schooling. That is, while the post-Brown focus was and continues to be between-school and between-district segregation by race, more subtle forms of racial discrimination have persisted and proliferated within schools and districts, even in the most “integrated” schools and districts.