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Rafalow, Matthew H.; Puckett, Cassidy – Educational Researcher, 2022
Existing scholarship suggests that schools do the work of social stratification by functioning as "sorting machines," or institutions that determine which populations of students are provided educational resources needed to help them get ahead. We build on this theory of social reproduction by extending it to better understand how…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Social Stratification, Resource Allocation, Data Use
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Wierschem, David; Ginther, Dean – Educause Quarterly, 2002
Identifies the main issues confronting academic institutions in developing a structured plan for acquisition and replacement of information technology hardware assets, and recommends steps for developing such a plan. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Selection, Computer Uses in Education, Equipment Evaluation, Higher Education
Anderson, Mary Alice – Book Report, 1996
Suggests ways to stretch media center budgets for technology, based on experiences at Winona Middle School (Minnesota). Topics include keeping statistics, hardware purchase and warranty information, centralizing purchases, planning for the reallocation of hardware and software, creative financing, working with business and community groups, staff…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Centralization, Computer Selection, Grantsmanship