It wasn't much different when my kids were in high school.
My 1980s education technology was kick ass
blowmp blowmp Da-da-daah! POW! :)
Oh man, I played the heck out of that game, but somehow I keep forgetting it existed. (Unlike, say, Myst or Wing Commander.) I think I beat it, but if so I'm suspect it might have involved a lot of trial-and-error regarding math questions I wasn't ready for.
I was surprised to find that most of the best ones were remakes of the old ones (Oregon Trail) or weirdly empty and small in scope like the very simplest, early edutainment games (number munchers, say) as in the case of Dragon Box Math. The boom of ambitious, fun, and sometimes weird 90s edutainment the legacy of which I was hoping to find wasn’t there. Really weird.
But if you buy a bunch of computers or whatever and some crap software and don't execute well it's not going to go good.
(Source: like half my family is/was a teacher or school administrator)