Students in the US educational system listen to music and watch video on their iPhones. They read news and keep in touch using Twitter and texting. Meanwhile, hardcopy newsprint is rapidly disappearing, television is no longer subject to time slotting, and devices like Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader are driving readers away from bookstores. Yet schoolage children lug outdated, heavy, hardbound books back and forth to school each day, books that are seriously outdated, easily vandalized, and increasingly irrelevent. America’s schools need to abandon hardcopy books, now! Read the rest of this entry »