Sweden is rethinking how much technology belongs in the classroom after concerns over falling reading performance.
The 2021 PIRLS results showed declining reading scores, prompting Education Minister Lotta Edholm to argue that Sweden had digitalized schools too quickly and too early. A 2023 curriculum revision restored greater emphasis on printed textbooks and handwriting in primary education, while the government funded new books for schools. In 2024, Swedish law was changed to strengthen pupils’ right to physical textbooks, and plans to move national tests for younger children onto screens were abandoned.
The Karolinska Institute had also warned that excessive reliance on digital tools could harm learning. Screens have not disappeared, however, and remain valuable for older students and children with dyslexia. Sweden’s debate is increasingly about when children should use technology—not whether they should use it at all.
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September 8, 2026 57 1
