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USA Today: Obama wants schools to speed digital transition
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The Obama administration is asking every U.S. school to accelerate
the transition to digital textbooks.
Obama's goal: an e-textbook in every student's hand by 2017.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will recommend today at a summit of industry and education officials that states modify the textbook adoption process, allowing K-12 schools to use taxpayer funding once reserved for printed books on iPads, Kindles and the like — as well as software.
They'll begin pushing publishers, computer tablet makers and Internet service providers to work together and lower costs if they want to sell their products to the nation's 50 million schoolkids.
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