This paper is to show the relationship between education reform and
informationalism in the United States, Korea and India. Since the 1980s the
interaction between microelectronics-based information technologies and
genetically-based information technologies has changed industrial capitalism(or
industrialism) to informational capitalism(or informationalism). At economic
imperatives such as globalization, flexibility and netwoking are becoming the
dominant features of today's restructuring efforts in business and elsewhere. The
effects of such efforts on the occupational structure is characterized by the rise
of highly educated social groups, in particular, managers, professionals and
technicians. Among them, scientists and managers are of most importance in the
new knowledge-based society. Thus, industrialized nations have energetically
pursued education reforms to survive in the global economy. The transformation
of public education is generally guided more or less by the market logic in the
United States, much less in Korea, and hardly in India. Their concrete strategies
vary, due to differences in economic situation, established state policies, culture
and history.