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This legislative report offers testimony and related materials concerning two bills that address the issues of the computer in the classroom as an educational tool, access to computers, teacher training, and software development through the establishment of a National Computer Educational Software Corporation. Testimony of the following witnesses is included: Representatives Albert Gore, Jr. (Tennessee), Timothy E. Wirth (Colorado), and Thomas J. Downey (New York); Gary Bauer, Department of Education; Richard S. Nicholson, National Science Foundation; Roy Truby, Council of Chief State School Officers; Linda Tarr-Whelan, National Education Association; Sue Talley, Apple Computer Corporation; Paul Horwitz, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.; Lois Rice, Control Data Corporation; Harry McQuillen, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.; Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fredrick Bell, University of Pittsburgh; and F. James Rutherford, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Additional testimony submitted for the record includes that of the Association of American Publishers, Inc.; Association of Data Processing Service Organizations; T. H. Bell, Secretary of Education; and George A. Keyworth, Science Advisor to the President. (LMM)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert