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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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[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I don't even think any of that was intended. It was just a massive handout to Apple, Google, and other tech companies and a diversion of resources from teaching/education to hardware and apps. Coincidently it also made us all dumber which was a nice bonus for the capitalists.