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Improving Lives, Improving Public Safety: Post Secondary Online Education for Offenders: Selected Reading
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Materials describing the online inmate distance learning program are contained in this document. The goal of the program is to deliver course content via the Internet, while inmates work at computers that are not Internet-enabled. Contents of this packet include: project abstracts for FY 2000 awards from the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE); a press release from the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) entitled "Maryland Correctional Ed Gets Million Dollar Grant To Provide Online Post Secondary Courses"; an article called "Maryland Correctional Education to Provide Online Post Secondary Courses" from the Correctional Education Association's News and Notes, January 2001, v. 23 n. 1, p. 1, 10; and two articles from the Baltimore Sun -- "Learning Behind Bars: State Program Gives Inmates a Chance to Earn College Degrees Via Well-Guarded Net Connections" (February 12, 2001) by Michael James, and "Inmates Use Internet To Earn Degrees" (February 16, 2001) by Michael James.