Educators Want Access to New Digital Communications

By Peter West

Austin, Tex.

Some schools could find themselves at dead ends on the "information highway'' unless the federal government requires telecommunications companies to guarantee educational access to the digital networks they are building, participants in a recent conference here warned.

Without adequate regulatory safeguards, said David B. Britt, the chief executive officer of the Children's Television Workshop, the long-touted information highway "will not have enough 'off ramps' into our ghettos and...