Writer: Duncan's Calls For Digital Textbooks Misguided

In a columnin the Emporia (KS) Gazette (10/26) , John Richard Schrock writes that Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recent calls for 100% use of digital textbooks in the next few years "reveals again how he is isolated from the American public classroom and economically poor students." Schrock points out that some 40% of US households lack broadband internet access, and continues to lambaste both Duncan and Kansas schools officials who demonstrate the same inclination to push for digital technology despite many students' lack of access.