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T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Melinda George	Building a Technology-Rich Community Partnerships between the state and district leaders are critical keys to the success of building a technology rich school community.
T.H.E. Journal September 24, 2009 David Nagel	New Resources Focus on the Effective Use of Technology in Title I Programs The State Educational Technology Directors Association and the National Association for State Title I Directors are launching new resources designed to help with Title I programs, especially in terms of using technology to help improve outcomes.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news...
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Nancy Napolillo	Leadership & Advocacy: Technology Leadership at the District Level: A Look at the Monongalia County School District Monongalia County School District emerges as a leader in technology implementation.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Neah J. Lohr	Implementing the Complexities of NCLB Wisconsin's approach to overcoming the law's challenges and closing the achievement gap
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Was I Wrong on Obama? We have an administration that believes in the power of technology in education, but wants to take a radically different approach to encouraging its use, shifting away from funding through loosely structured grants to having ed tech use integrated across all educational programs.
CIO August 1, 2002 Lorraine Cosgrove Ware	Whatever Happened to the CTO? Only 65 out of 500 (13 percent) heads of IT use the CTO title. Confusion about the role, tight budgets and ambiguity have slowed widespread acceptance of the CTO title and role.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf	Spread the Word: Ed Tech Matters With the future - and present - of ed tech funding at risk, it's imperative to inform legislators about the impact of technology on student achievement.
T.H.E. Journal March 2006 Paula Love	Meta-Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities A new study focused on the Enhancing Education Through Technology program identified a strategy to develop partnerships to produce increased learning outcomes.
T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Neal Starkman	Special Section: Resource Management :: Value Judgments Are your technology expenditures proving to be money well spent? A new online total cost of ownership (TCO) tool will let you know.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Sleepless in Washington Ed tech money is finally flowing from Capitol Hill. So why are education leaders so filled with angst? Because of a nightmare scenario in which the funding goes wasted.
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Williams & Krueger	Is Your Network Safe? Why educators should care about cybersecurity - and what they should do about it.
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Garrett Dikkers et al.	A Bridge to Success There is a no man's land between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways.
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 Philip J. Bossert	Lessons Learned An inside look at four of the top technology school districts in the nation...
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Geoffry Fletcher	Sharing State, District Best Practices Sharing, learning and working together can accelerate the effective use of technology in education.
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	The Power In a Story In the last six months, SETDA (State Educational Technology Directors Association) has been working with professional organizations to educate members of Congress about the importance of funding the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) section of NCLB.
T.H.E. Journal February 16, 2010 David Nagel	Ed Tech at the Crossroads The Consortium or School Networking prepares for its annual conference on education technology policy and leadership.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004	Data-Driven Decision-Making The hurdles of implementing successful processes for data management and analysis, online assessment, and capacity building with data-driven decision-making at a state level are numerous and sometimes daunting.
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T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Cheryl Lemke	Measuring Progress With Technology in Schools Today's education policymakers are seeing technology through the lens of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which is creating expectations for a "learning return" on all technology investments.
T.H.E. Journal February 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Conference Call to Arms The upcoming Consortium for School Networking gathering arrives at a critical time for educators, who in the face of dwindling funds must continue their push for more technology in schools.
T.H.E. Journal November 2004	CoSN Launches Site to Combat Cyber Security Threats The site was developed to include self-evaluation tools, best practices and professional development workshops geared toward two audiences: superintendents/policymakers and school technology directors.
T.H.E. Journal February 3, 2010 David Nagel	Education Groups 'Extremely Concerned' over EETT Cut in Obama Budget If adopted by Congress without alteration, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget would cut the sole source of dedicated federal funding for education technology
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 Neal Starkman	Visionaries :: Vision Quest How can you see the world like an ed tech leader? Start by checking yourself for a trio of qualities common to the industry's most creative thinkers.
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Spend Wisely...or Else Thoughtful use of our share of the stimulus package is the only way to guarantee more ed tech funding in the future.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf	Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning.
CIO April 1, 2004 Marcia Bohannon	What I Learned in School The CIO for a large school district found that listening to her peers on the educational side helped her rebuild IT's credibility.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Fletcher & Wolf	Striking a New Tone The fourth annual collaboration with SETDA finds that, even in the face of political peril, ed tech supporters have plenty of reasons to be hopeful.
T.H.E. Journal May 2001	First Annual State-of-the-States Survey The goal of the survey was to gather state-level information about educational technology in each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, and then to track this baseline information over the coming years...
T.H.E. Journal April 2007 Neal Starkman	Forging a Bond How the relationship between one school district and its surrounding community has produced a string of winning ed tech ballot initiatives.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Berger & Gunn	Challenging Districts to 'Put Reading First' When it comes to the legislation known as Reading First -- a law with profound implications for how our children will learn to read -- the administration has backed up its words with forceful policy, its policy with unprecedented amounts of money, and its money with a plan for vigilant enforcement.
T.H.E. Journal September 11, 2009 David Nagel	SETDA Urges NAGB To Reconsider Tech Literacy Test The State Educational Technology Directors Association is now publicly urging the National Assessment Governing Board to reconsider its position on a nationwide test for technological literacy among students.
HBS Working Knowledge December 19, 2005 Mallory Stark	Public Education Goes to School Can the art and science of business management help public schools improve student performance? Several Harvard professors discuss how business and education might work together on the leadership and management challenges facing the education sector.
T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Mikael Blaisdell	Getting Beyond Break/Fix As long as the help desk is thought of only as a problem solver, it will never play as full a role in educational objectives as it could.
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 David Tapang	A 21st Century Model for Maximizing Technology Purchases The author, a Microsoft marketing manager, promotes Microsoft's tool for helping educational institutions choose which operating system is right for them...
T.H.E. Journal June 2006 Victor Rivero	High-Speed Broadband: A Need for Speed Slow connectivity is imperiling the quality of our nation's K-12 education, while the rest of the world sets the pace technologically.
Parameters Autumn 2004 George Reed et al.	Mapping the Route of Leadership Education: Caution Ahead A networked approach to joint leadership development can lead to multiple perspectives of leadership more appropriate to a rapidly changing environment and one more worthy of the military profession.
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Ruth Watson	The Trumbull County Community Network Project In the early 1990s, the school districts of Trumbull County, OH were similar to most schools in the amount of technology available to teachers, administrators and students. The project that changed that situation made an organized effort to infuse technology into K-12 schools...
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T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Mary Ann Wolf	Assessing Technology Integration in Schools The State Educational Technology Directors Association's Profiling Educational Technology Integration tools assist states in making data-driven decisions about education technology.
T.H.E. Journal March 2004 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Examining the Wireless Classroom Discussion on going wireless, the benefits and the downside.
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 Matt Villano	Data-Driven Decision Making :: The 'Other' Data Most districts know the benefits of tabulating and tracking student performance. But now many are finding there's even more to gain from number crunching by casting out a wider net.
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Matt Villano	Make It Count Budget crunches are elevating the need for K-12 technology leaders to demonstrate a favorable return on investment. Here's how to ensure you're getting what you pay for.
T.H.E. Journal January 2005 Geoffry Fletcher	Fighting the War on Ed Tech Funding Two extremely important sources of funding from the federal level for states and local districts, Title II D of the No Child Left Behind Act and the E-Rate program, were in jeopardy within the last month.
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Mark Gura	East Harlem's Winning School Technology Formula Tech-hungry students, generous corporate partners, central support and the determination to succeed...
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