Based on the assumption that effective use of school computers requires “models of good teaching,” Computers in the Classroom offers six case studies of schools which integrated computers with updated curriculum to the benefit of students and local communities. Each of these models exemplify her book’s call for greater teacher involvement and teacher collaboration (or "classroom practitioners,” as the book calls them) rather than reliance upon “university-based scientists and educational specialists” (x). All six models also tend to share other traits: high unemployment, a significant minority enrollment, and substandard academic scores. All were also recipients of Apple Computer Education Grants in the early 1990’s.

While Andrea Gooden suggests her audience is anyone interested in educational change facilitated by computers, she obviously targets educators and school administrators with a clear claim that if dynamic and successful curriculum change can be instituted by computer novices in “some of the most underserved and neediest American communities," such change can be duplicated almost anywhere (xv). Gooden customizes her programs to meet the needs of your organization.