Update
on
The Living Article

Linda C. Greene
North Carolina State University

In the last issue of Meridian, we began a project we entitled The Living Article, in hopes of beginning a new forum for scholarly discourse. As we noted in our introduction to that article, this is an experiment and we could not anticipate what response, if any, we would receive. At this point, we have received responses that fall into one of two categories. In the first category are responses that simply affirm the usefulness of the information presented and express appreciation for the article's message. Most of the responses we received fall into this category. While we are grateful for and encouraged by these messages, we will not reprint them here as they do not provide additional perspective on the topic at hand.

The second type of message we received involved examples of programs that are currently using web-based approaches to deal with some of the concerns expressed in our article. Unfortunately, we received far fewer of these responses. Since the additional information generated so far does not yet warrant a full revision of the article, at this time we will simply present to you the additional information we have gathered. For the time being, this page will serve as a bulletin board on which we will provide direct links to the responses we have received so far as well as new responses generated between now and the next issue of Meridian. In the next issue, we hope that we will have gathered enough additional information and differing perspectives to formulate a fuller development of The Living Article. For now, we look forward to continuing the collaboration with you on this project.

iEARN: The Internation Education and Resource Network
(http://www.iearn.org/)

Center for the Prevention of School Violence
(http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv/)

Responses to The Living Article

February 7, 2001
Response from:

Deborah Felton, Parent Volunteer
Warren Township School System

January 10, 2001
Response from:

Elaine Harper, Project Coordinator
Conflict Management Project
Center for the Prevention of School Violence

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We look forward to hearing from you.