This case study is about introducing computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in primary and secondary schools in Jamaica. The management of the educational system is school-based and, since 1989, the Government has imposed a policy of partnership with the private sector and communities in providing and reforming education in the 1990s. This case represents bottom-up educational reform as both the Government and the international agencies rendering development assistance have placed low priority on computer-assisted instruction in primary and secondary schools. At the same time, the success of the efforts of schools, their communities, and the private sector in implementing this reform on their own initiative has made it impossible for the Government and the international agencies to ignore the energy and the excitement that has been generated.