Knowing and Getting What You Pay For: Administration, Technology, and Accountability in K-12 Schools

Abstract

Spurred on by the global economy and greater public interests, technology is no longer a luxury reserved for or exclusively used in wealthy schools. Indeed, educational leaders now experience strong pressure to increase and improve the use of the technology in their schools. Utilizing current research, program models, and best practices, this chapter provides educational administrators with issues associated with the costs of school technology plans, instructional, management, and other topics to address in planning to add or change the use of technology in schools, and a list of basic tenets to assist in creating and operating school technology programs.

Citation

Donahoo, S. and Whitney, M. (2006), "Knowing and Getting What You Pay For: Administration, Technology, and Accountability in K-12 Schools", Tettegah, S.Y. and Hunter, R.C. (Ed.) Technology and Education: Issues in Administration, Policy, and Applications in K12 Schools (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3660(05)08010-8