(Please excuse the cross-posting)

Hi Everyone,

I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a group of 25 New York City
public school teachers.  They were telling me that it is very hard for them
to find the time to get to visit museums.  I suggested that they might try
to review museum resources on the Internet and was told the following
astonishing fact (?):  The NYC Board of Education has put up firewalls
against museum Web sites.  According to this group of teachers, it seems
the B of Ed. doesn't want students to have the liberty to access museum Web
sites because they might contain things that are so-called inappropriate
for children. Has anyone else heard this?  Is this happening in other
communities?  If this is the case, this obviously has serious implications
for museums.


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Arts and Museum Education Consultant &
Doctoral Candidate A.B.D., Arts & Humanities,
Teachers College Columbia University &
Faculty, Creative Arts Laboratory,
Teachers College Columbia University
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