ABSTRACT
In this chapter we review the characteristics of the IBM Secondary School Computer Education Program that made it a particularly significant educational innovation. Microcomputers may come to play an important role in reforming and strengthening the nation's secondary schools, and the IBM program can contribute substantially to that goal. The program embodied a major effort to explore strategies for using the microcomputer as a learning tool in a wide range of curricular and extracurricular activities and to develop a model for implementing such projects. For this reason, we believe it is valuable to document the program's most significant features for the consideration, adoption, and adaptation of educators.
