South Korea’s school tablets — a test for all

South Korea’s announcement that it will ban all school paper textbooks and replace them with electronic tablets by 2014 should ring alarm bells in the United States, Europe and Latin America — many of our children run the risk of being left even farther behind their digital-savvy Asian counterparts.

Already, according to a new study by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), South Korea is the top country