Serving underserved communities with instructional technologies giving them what they need, not what you want

Urban Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-445

  Clark, Kevin ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Community; Computers; Technology; Underserved

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544473610     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085905276388     Document Type: Review

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