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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets. It has not paid off (fortune.com)
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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

also, Google says it helps “get that loyalty early, and potentially for life”:

screenshot of slide with text:Imagine a world where...Parents ask their children "Why aren't you watching more YouTube?"Children from small villages can become engineers and doctorsTeachers can uplevel their classroom by curating the best videos against their syllabusSchool Administrators shift budgets from Textbooks to YouTube subscriptionsGoogle Confidential and Proprietary