ABSTRACT
Within the next decades education will change more than it has changed since the modern school was created by the printed book over 300 years ago. An economy in which knowledge is becoming the true capital and the premier wealth producing resource makes new and stringent demands on the schools for educational performance and educational responsibility. To restore the capacity of the American school to provide universal literacy on a high level - well beyond that of the elementary school - will therefore have to be a first priority. School and education will be central to American public life and American politics for years to come. The new technology is bound to have a profound impact on the schools and how we learn. Major changes are ahead in schools and education is certain; the knowledge society will demand them and the new learning theories and learning technologies will trigger them.
