Is Computer Technology the Answer? The Crisis in the Classroom and Educational Reform

A DECADE AGO, radical critics argued that, contrary to the mainstream contention that schools were great levelers of class and social differences, they were really training institutions for the labor market. Since the labor market supplied workers for factories and offices in which most occupations were degraded regardless of the supposed skills required to perform them, the schools reproduced the workplace. According to its left critics, American education was similarly degraded (see chapters five and six).