When Cecilia Rosenbaum saw a book-spine staircase where the vertical part of each step was adorned(装饰，点缀) with colourful stickers showing “Peter Pan”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and other titles of beloved children’s books, she decided to copy it for her school. The principal of Montessori Mondial Kungsholmen, a grundskola(瑞典九年制综合学校) (mandatory nine-year comprehensive school), is on a mission(致力于，肩负使命) to get her charges to read more(让她的学生们多读书). During break, books are brought out to the park in front of the school. Each day starts with 15 minutes of reading in class. One day a week the teacher reads aloud for everyone.
当塞西莉亚·罗森鲍姆看到一段书脊楼梯，每级台阶的垂直部分都贴满了彩色贴纸，展示着《彼得潘》、《查理和巧克力工厂》以及其他受孩子们喜爱的书名时，她决定为自己的学校复制这一设计。蒙台梭利国际国王岛学校的校长——这是一所grundskola（义务教育九年制综合学校）——正在致力于让学生们多读书。课间休息时，书被带到学校前面的公园。每天以课堂上15分钟的阅读开始。每周有一天老师会给大家朗读。
Once the country with the world’s highest literacy(读写能力，识字) rate, Sweden’s reading standards have declined(下降，衰退) of late(最近，近来). In 2022 (the latest available data) Sweden’s reading score in PISA(PISA是经济合作与发展组织（OECD）...), a worldwide study of 15-year-olds’ literacy and other skills, had fallen by 19 points over four years to 487. That compared with 516 for Ireland and 543 for Singapore, the top performer. “Around 25% of Swedish pupils struggle to read properly,” says Lotta Edholm, the higher-education minister. In her view this is “linked to an overreliance(过度依赖) on digital tools without sufficient evidence of their effectiveness”.
瑞典曾是世界上识字率最高的国家，但近年来阅读水平有所下降。2022年（最新可用数据），瑞典在PISA（一项针对15岁青少年识字和其他技能的全球研究）中的阅读分数四年内下降了19分，降至487分。相比之下，爱尔兰为516分，表现最好的新加坡为543分。“大约25%的瑞典学生阅读困难，”高等教育部长洛塔·埃德霍尔姆说。她认为这与“过度依赖数字化工具，而缺乏其有效性的充分证据”有关。
Ms Edholm is determined to dial down(降低，减少) digital education. “Från skärm till pärm(① 这是瑞典中右翼政府的教育政策口号，强...)” (from screen to binder) is her centre-right government’s slogan for its “back to basics” policy to reduce the use of computers and tablets in favour of handwriting and old-school textbooks. In August this year mobile phones will be banned at all grundskolor(瑞典九年制综合学校（复数）). In 2023 the government launched an ambitious(雄心勃勃的) investment programme to reach its goal of providing one textbook per pupil per subject. So far it has spent over SKr2bn ($216m) to bring back books and it will continue to invest in offline reading, handwriting and numeracy(计算能力，数理素养).
埃德霍尔姆女士决心降低数字化教育的比重。“Från skärm till pärm”（从屏幕到文件夹）是她所在的中右翼政府为“回归基础”政策提出的口号，旨在减少电脑和平板的使用，转而支持手写和传统教科书。今年8月，所有grundskolor将禁止手机。2023年，政府启动了一项雄心勃勃的投资计划，目标是每名学生每门学科配备一本教科书。到目前为止，它已经花费了超过20亿瑞典克朗（2.16亿美元）来重拾书本，并将继续投资于线下阅读、手写和计算能力。