Warns that the failure of public schools to provide extensive technological training and to restructure curriculum in order to achieve technological relevance may result in their "environmental collapse"--that is, their abandonment by dissatisfied constituents and clients for an economically attractive alternative. (Author/WD)

Describes a 1981-82 pilot project in the use of computers in grades one through eight by six schools in two suburban Washington, DC, school districts. Despite "the many obstacles and barriers to computer literacy," three of the six schools made "amazing progress." (JBM)