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That article is short on details about the decisions being made, and rather quickly veers off into "in other countries, they're trying to do this" rather than providing any kind of solid justification for the reasoning as to why the Swedes are going back to textbooks. The closest hint we get from that is the comment about going back to vetted materials, rather than using what's freely available, which suggests that the digital materials were the problem, rather than the technology. I'm still in favor of small children not having lots of screen time, and what screen time there is is highly interactive with their caregivers and grown-ups, because that's best practices. And I think the USians mentioned, who are cognizant of the divide between what the right can access and the poor can access, are doing a better job of making the case for print materials than what the Swedes supposedly are in the piece.