There is little software for political education m the schools. It is not used much. This paper is a summary of a much longer, fully documented survey of the reasons for this condition. Although this summary focuses on political education, the findings describe many problems that educators confront in their efforts to teach social studies material with computers. Keywords: Pohtical, education, computer, software, elementary, high schools.
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