Actually not a bad idea, as long as it doesn't involve giving every poor kid, good or bad, illiterate or avid reader, a personal tablet as well. The most rudimentary knowledge of fundamental economic thinking would tell you that giving a valuable item to someone who does not value it more than other needs will quickly result in that person trading or selling the item to get something they really do want.
Of course, so far the Democrats and Obozo in particular have demonstrated that none of them actually grasp the fundamentals of economic decision-making, so there's that...