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Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants textbooks to become obsolete

October 2, 2012 /

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Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? They’re schoolwork may soon depend on it.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. "Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete," he declared.

It’s not just a matter of keeping up with the times, Duncan said in remarks to the National Press Club. It’s about keeping up with other countries whose students are leaving their American counterparts in the dust.

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