Prides' Guide to Educational Software
Bill and Mary Pride have eight kids, all of them home-schooled. The Prides are into using computers for class work, so they have a computer room stuffed with a Mac, Apple IIGS, Amiga, a 386 clone, various CD-ROM devices, Nintendo, a Miracle Piano system, and so on. Add five or six kids to the room at any one time, and you have a homeschooling arcade. In between lessons, Ma and Pa and their computer-savvy kids have evaluated every piece of educational software known to be on the market. The kids are ceaseless and merciless testers. Somehow the Prides found time (and a vacant computer) in this madhouse to compile their evaluations in a humongous and amazingly complete atlas to all educational software available for personal computers and CD-ROM platforms. The Prides compare hundreds of pre-school, language arts, math, science, social studies, and test-preparation programs. Their 600- page "Prides' Guide to Educational Software" is a gold mine for any parent unhappy with the structure of school, and intrigued, but baffled, by the choices available for computer-assisted education.
Prides' Guide to Educational Software, by Bill and Mary Pride, 1992, $27.50, from 800 346 6322.
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