Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education.

Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education. Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future ofAmerican Education. Terry M. Moe and John E. Chubb (Jossey-Bass). These two political scientists, authors of a best-sellingprovoucher publication, Politics, Markets and America's Schools(Brookings, 1990), have shifted their bets from that spoke of theschool-reform roulette wheel named "school voucher" to onemarked "technological innovation." The descriptions of thelatest uses of educational technology both within schools and over theInternet are just as compelling as the evidence provided that teachersunion leaders today are little more than modern Luddites. The latestpublication is as much required reading as the one the authors penned 20years ago, and it can be expected to spark almost as much controversy.But the analysis is better at isolating the political obstacles to besurmounted than identifying the political support for technologicalinnovators who, according to Moe and Chubb, will nonetheless persevere.All the best. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]