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Matthew McConaughey
arrested, booked, released
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Actor
Matthew McConaughey was arrested
early Monday during a disturbance at
his home in which police said he was
dancing naked and playing bongo
drums.
McConaughey, 29, was arrested at
around 3 a.m. and booked at the Travis
County Jail on suspicion of possession
of marijuana, possession of drug para
phernalia and resisting transportation,
according to a police statement.
He was charged only with resisting
transportation, a Class A misde
meanor.
Travis County Attorney Ken Oden
said the drug-related charges were dis
missed because they were not support
ed by the facts of the case.
McConaughey was released
Monday afternoon on a $1,000 per
sonal recognizance bond.
McConaughey, a 1993 graduate of
the University of Texas, would not
comment on the charges.
Joe Turner, McConaughey’s
lawyer, said the police illegally
searched the actor’s home and used
excessive force.
Police said they were called to
McConaughey’s home in an upscale
neighborhood in west Austin after
receiving a complaint of loud music.
Police saw him through a window
naked and playing drums and another
man dancing and clapping. The other
suspect was handcuffed but not
detained.
McConaughey has starred in sev
eral movies, including, “A Time to
Kill,” “Amistad,” and “Dazed and
Confused.”
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Report examines technology
WASHINGTON (AP) - California,
home of Silicon Valley, provides the
fewest computer terminals for its stu
dents. The District of Columbia, in a
region through which 65 percent of
global Internet traffic flows, offers
schoolchildren the worst access to com
puters able to surf the World Wide Web.
And new teachers are no more like
ly than veteran peers to know how to
teach with computers, and less than
one-fifth of the dollars schools spend on
technology goes to train them.
An annual report on school technol
ogy released Tuesday said that while the
number of school computers has dou
bled since 1993 to 8 million nationwide,
many states lag in access they provide
students. Furthermore, the report said, if
classroom computers are going to make
a difference, the nation must focus on
training teachers to do more than surf
ing Web sites and sending e-mail.
“The public is beginning to ask for
proof that their investment in technolo
gy has paid off,” according to the report
by Market Data Retrieval of Shelton,
Conn. “It’s no longer sufficient to point
to inventory lists, as important as they
are, as the only proof of progress.”
Still, the Dun & Bradstreet research
subsidiary’s sixth annual “Technology
in Education” report highlights state
by-state comparisons of student-to
computer ratios. And despite a national
low of 5.7 pupils per computer, down
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The public is beginning to ask for proof that
their investment in technology has paid off.”
Market Data Retrieval report
from 10.8 in 1993, this year’s results
continue to show varying degrees of
computer access nationwide.
Pupils have computer access above
the national average in Midwestern
states, with little of the computer-related
industry that exists In Washington state,
home of software giant Microsoft and
Internet companies.
But California falls behind at 8.1
students per computer.
Nancy Sullivan, the state education
department’s tefttyiolagymanager, said
she’s seen an increase in private sector
school partnerships on boostmg'tech
nology since this summer, when Gov.
Gray Davis asked several Silicon Valley
executives to chip in.
“What needs to be looked at in com
paring state A to state B is where they
started from,” Sullivan said. “As much
as I’d love for us to be three students to
one, it will take us longer to get there.”
Similarly, Joseph Lane, chief tech
nology officer for the schools in the
District of Columbia, said the system
had to concentrate dollars on preparing
its older, urban school buildings for
rewiring before it could buy terminals.
Market Data Retrieval gathered the
information through mail and telephone
surveys of the nation’s 86,000 schools,
with 48 percent responding.
The survey was not a sample survey,
so no margin of error was calculated,
said Kathleen Brantley, the company’s
director of product development. She
said the company ensures that a profile
of responding schools matches charac
teristics of all schools surveyed.
Some critics warned Tuesday
against analyzing education technology
solely on boxes and wires.
“I don’t think a shopping-cart men
tality tells much of the story,” said
William L. Rukeyser, coordinator of
Learning in the Real World, a 4-year-old
Woodland, Calif., nonprofit that ques
tions the overemphasis of school dollars
on education technology. “We’ve had
this kind of multibillion investment
without the necessary level of sophisti
cation to use it - and that is across the
board.”
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