The Nation - News from Sept. 6, 1988

Using computers in the classroom may help students learn better but too few teachers know how to use them and students have limited access to such technology, according to a government report. The congressional Office of Technology Assessment said in a report to be released today, that the United States has been a world leader in providing schoolchildren with access to new technologies but “classrooms today resemble their ancestors of 50 and 100 years ago” with teachers standing in front of a blackboard and lecturing while students take notes or look out the window, said the report, released by the House Education and Labor Committee.