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children. These are ambitious versions of proposals being discussed in many places. In a post-September 11th, post-Beslan world, closed-circuit televi-sion (CCTV) is the newest idea for public schools. CCTV in schools is not universally embraced, however. For example in Israel, where public-safety issues are paramount and security guards stand in front of discos, shopping malls, and restaurants, video cameras are not in routine use in schools. What dangers these cameras would protect against? The model pro-posed by the New Jersey Institute of Technology would not have prevented Columbine; the two students had every right to be on campus. Nor would video cameras have prevented Beslan, because the weapons that enabled the takeover were hidden while the Russian school was under construction. But on the other hand, such cameras probably would catch kids involved in in-appropriate activities | smoking, hanging out instead of being in class | why not invest? For one thing, with a false positive rate of 1% | ten false alarms every morning in a school with just a thousand students, teachers, and sta | it is doubtful that facial-recognition systems would work. How long would videotapes be stored? Who would have access to them? What risks would this introduce? Can we really expect schools to adequately secure online les of student and sta records, records that, by necessity, must be Internet accessible? Video camera in schools introduce a di erent set of issues as well. Con-sider, for a moment, the role of public schools in society. \[T]he individual who is to be educated is a social individual and... society is an organic union of individuals," wrote John Dewey in 1897 in \My Pedagogic Creed" (The School Journal., Vol. LIV, No. 3, pp. 77-80). According to Dewey, whose theories of progressive education profoundly impacted public schools, \The 1 |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1145/1064830.1064865 | Commun. ACM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
false positive rate,internet access | Programming language,Computer science,Mathematics education | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
48 | 6 | 0001-0782 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Susan Landau | 1 | 172 | 28.89 |