The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children's Education at Risk

by Alison J. Armstrong, Charles Casement

How Computers Put Our Children's Education at Risk
In Los Angeles, the Kittridge Street Elementary School eliminated its music program to hire a technology coordinator. A Virginia school turned its art room into a computer laboratory. In the United States, a record $6.5 billion was spent on educational technology for the 1998-99 school year, while funding for music, arts, and other specialty areas continues to shrink. Stubbornly, nearly every measure of our children's educational performance refuses to rise. Drawing from hundreds of school visits, studies, and expert interviews, The Child and the Machine paints a compelling picture of how our uncritical rush to use computers in schools has led to one of the most expensive and least helpful revolutions in the history of American education.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

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Alison Armstrong was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada as a child. She is the author of several books for schoolchildren, and co-author of the anthology Mythic Voices(then, Alison Dickie), which is used in schools in Canada, the United States, and Australia. A journalist and an active parent representative on educational committees, she lives in Toronto with her husband and her two school-aged children.
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