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Wednesday, December 12, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2001/nf2001127_9481.htm The Internet as Classroom - Former FCC chief Newton Minow and ex-PBS honcho Lawrence Grossman want Uncle Sam's help to make the Net a better teaching tool In a May 9, 1961, speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Newton N. Minow, then head of the Federal Communications Commission, famously described television as a "vast wasteland." During the '70s, he tried to improve the state of that medium by helping the Public Broadcasting Service develop math, science, and humanities courses to enable people to get a college education through TV. Now, Minow is switching his focus to the Internet....
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