As some school districts rely less on hardback textbooks, some parents find their children depend more on printed out material culled together into patchwork textbooks.
As some school districts rely less on hardback textbooks, some parents find their children depend more on printed out material culled together into patchwork textbooks. Kate McGee/KUT
As Texas Schools Go Digital, Parents Say They Need to Be Educated Too

Across Texas, schools are replacing hardcover textbooks with other resources: digital textbooks, printed worksheets and online tutorials.  As schools phase out hard textbooks that students can bring home, some parents are finding it more difficult to understand what their students are learning, or how to help them with homework. 

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Kate McGee is an Austin-based enterprise and investigative reporter. She joined the Tribune in October 2020 as a higher education reporter. She was a three-time finalist for the Education Writers Association's...