In the article we consider the problems of informatization of education.

Keywords: informatization of education, information and communication technologies, educational process, information environment, self-directed educational activity.

The article contains the author's position on the polytechnic content of general education.

Keywords: polytechnic education, polytechnic content of education, modern school, the development of manufacturing industries, economic development of the country.

In the article we consider the problem of preparing students for labor as a condition of the development of the Russian productive forces, and propose to solve it by training students’ basic labor skills and abilities, as well as by teaching them the basics of technologies of various types of production.

Keywords: productive forces, modern industrial and agricultural production, human resources, economic development of the country, labor skills and abilities, labor education, career guidance, productive labor, polytechnic education, modern school.