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July 20, 2011Education in South Korea: Books overboardWHEN school textbooks make the headlines in East Asia, they are usually cast as bystanders to some intractable old dispute, and related demands that children be taught "correct" history. Thankfully though, future-minded officials in South Korea have given cause for this correspondent to write about something altogether different: by 2015, all of the country's dead-tree textbooks will be phased out, in favour of learning materials carried on tablet computers and other devices.Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 20, 2011 1:22 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
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