[Air-l] Technology and Academic Preparation: A Comparative Study

[Mark Warschauer]

For the couple of years, our team at the Univ. of California, Irvine 
has been carrying out research on the use of new technologies in 
diverse social contexts in California schools.  During this past year 
of the study, that involved a qualitative investigation of the 
technology availability, access, and use in two sets of Southern 
California high-schools: 5 schools with large numbers  of Latino 
students in low socio-economic status neighborhoods, and 3 schools of 
predominately White students in wealthier communities.  Both the 
Executive Summary (9 pages) and the full report (165 pages) can be 
downloaded from here:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/research.html

Mark Warschauer
Vice Chair, Department of Education
University of California, Irvine
tel: 949: 824-2526,  fax: (949) 824-2965
markw at uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw