We must search for greater productivity in the teaching and learning process. During the past 15 years expenditures for elementary and secondary education have climbed from about four percent of GNP to eight percent. Much of this expenditure has been for educational technology, but we still don't know enough about how to use it. To help make better use of this technology the Office of Education has changed some of its research priorities, and has created a new unit, the National Center for Educational Technology (NCET). NCET will help to make the focus of our educational technology research more specific, to stop nickel-and-diming a lot of small studies and to start investing in a few comprehensive projects. For example the Rocky Mountain Demonstration Project has been awarded $5 million, half of NCET's fiscal 1973 budget, to try to show that some of the promises of educational technology can be realized. And we want to show that in the rush to efficiency and productivity we don't have to lose our sense of humanity. (MG)