Education has many difficulties and scores on standard tests have shown little improvement. For example, The National Assessment of Educational Progress test showed no improvement from 1994 to 1999. With computerized education, learning of all students from the very brightest to the slowest would improve dramatically.

Computers thus far have been little more than a new gimmick in education, and despite a few examples of good use of the machines by a tiny number of teachers, overall classroom gains have been negligible. There are cogent reasons why computers, if they continue to be used as they are today, can never change education.

The solution to present educational woes requires that computers be allowed to instruct children without a teacher interposed between the machine and the child. There are examples of the use of the machines in this capacity and the results have been excellent.

Using computers as true instructors would change the way teachers function in education, but would not lessen their numbers nor their importance. Improved use of technology would relieve them of many of the time consuming chores that now burden their lives and would allow them to achieve much greater success in reaching their basic goal of educating children.

Many other benefits would flow from computerized education. These include fulfillment in all students of the basic and universal need to succeed, effective use of educational research, dramatic reduction of prejudice against race and sex, and elimination of substitute teaching. True computerization would also enhance better thinking by students, and many of the difficulties connected with Inclusion would be resolved. Moreover, computerized education would allow and foster smaller, neighborhood schools and make busing anachronistic.

All of these advantages are brought out in the book.

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