In Worldreader's first test, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development at six schools in Ghana starting in 2010, the group found that primary-school students who got Kindles increased their performance on standardized reading tests from about 13% to 16%.

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The chip, which has been in development for over a decade, just completed its first human test, which it passed with flying colors.

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