This booklet is intended to acquaint educational policy-makers with some of the current roles and potential applications of computers in the curriculum, and to encourage them to initiate actions that will lead to proper and effective instructional use of computers in school systems. It is organized as a series of questions and answers designed to give an overview of computers in education, with emphasis on instructional use. For each question, a brief answer is provided in boldface, followed by a more detailed discussion. Part I answers basic questions about computers, computing, hardware, software, and programming languages. Part II covers instructional use of computers, including the kinds of problems they can solve, the categories of educational use, the role they play in problem solving, their use as learning aids, and sections addressing computer education and calculators. Part III is devoted to the problems and procedure for developing appropriate goals, followed by a discussion of anticipated costs. Part IV consists of nine appendixes, seven of which are editorials by the author reprinted from "The Computing Teacher," while the remaining two are a brief glossary and a guide to periodical literature. (TE)