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It is safe to say that schools are trying their best to receive funding for technology innovation. As technology seems to be the path for all schools it is still hard to gain access to all of the tools needed. In an article I read titled “Developing and Sustaining K-12 School Technology Innovation through Lottery Grant Awards: A Multiple Case Study,” there was a qualitative study done on four schools about how they implemented technology in the school. The money was originally administered to the schools by a grant so the researchers analyzed the process for the grant and the program that was to be implemented into the school. Through the research there was communication between emails, reviews of formal documents, and different types of surveys administered for the researchers to find their data. Their main focus was to see how technology was being implemented and then they would compare the data to the other schools using culture, size, and money as key factors. In the conclusion one commonality was apparent, that through all of the info and data none of the schools wanted to discuss the impact on student achievement. At first I thought it was because there had been a negative effect but after contemplating I realized that the schools could not expect drastic improvements over night. While technology is the future and the aim for schools to head there has to be time for progress and for all the kinks to be worked out. We do know that technology has its ups and downs and can be effective for different learners and that is why I believe grants are being given to find evidence of the most effective ways to use technology. So, the relationship on funding and student success is the better the success the more funding the school will receive. Money will not be given out for no reason thus the two are directly coorelated to each other.

 McKnight, Lynne, and David Brooks. "Developing and Sustaining K-12 School Technology Innovation through Lottery Grant Awards: A Multiple Case Study." //Journal of Science Education and Technology// 12, no. 2 (2003): 153-182. [] (accessed March 31, 2011).