For these schools with huge budgets to apply to the problem of educating their pupils, ebooks are much more like software.

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This problem is worse among primary pupils, says the Kellogg's report, because they find it harder than secondary pupils to "fend for themselves".

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School exclusions and truancy are part of the problem, but keeping disruptive pupils off the streets may not be compatible with raising standards in the classroom.

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