My comment about blocking Wikipedia is not due to quality but rather teachers simply don't want to students using it for whatever reason, whether justifiable or not. I believe that is why it is banned.
But what baffles me is that the open source text book site is blocked even though California has invested $30 million into development of open source curriculum/text books in the hopes to reduce the $40 million price tag they spend a year on text books just for k-8 grades. I found there filtering policy here: http://www.sdcoe.net/hrt2/css/?loc=filter <-- i think thats it anyways, and i don't see it falling into any of there categories. o and the email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a side note, the reason why I went searching for open source books/curriculum was in the hope to convince educators and administrators to allow the use of open office in place of microsoft office for certain classes (Business and Computers Applications in specific). That alone could save some big bucks especially if back with ready made & self improving educational tools. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
