A plan to put an Amazon Kindle in every backpack

Could the Amazon Kindle help save the nation’s struggling school systems? Yes, according to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

On Tuesday, the DLC, a think tank in Washington, D.C., made a proposal asking the government to provide each of the nation’s 56 million K-12 students with a Kindle, or electronic reading device.

The group’s proposal, “A Kindle in Every Backpack: A Proposal for eTextbooks in American Schools,” http://www.dlc.org/documents/DLC_Freedman_Kindle_0709.pdf which was published on their website Tuesday, requests that the government fund a pilot program that would equip some 400,000 students with Kindles, or other electronic reading devices, for an entire year.

By Amy Farnsworth

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