ABSTRACT
Lewis Perelman authored a provocative book in 1992. The title was School’s Out: Hyperlearning, the New Technology, and the End of Education, it called for policy makers to seize an opportunity that was then presenting itself in American education. He saw classroom teachers approaching “rapid obsolescence” and believed that their jobs could be done better by technology. He called for a major overhaul of the nation’s schools that would transform teaching and learning from the traditional, human-intensive activity we know into a machine-intensive one. He claimed that teachers could be replaced by computers and the only reason this had not yet occurred was that the academic establishment and the “educrats” were not allowing it to happen (Perelman, 1992). The major overhaul of education to turn it into the technology-centric activity that Perelman called for did not occur but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t still on the horizon.
