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As Texas Schools Go Digital, Parents Say They Need to Be Educated Too

Texas schools are replacing hardcover textbooks with other resources: digital textbooks, printed worksheets and online tutorials. Some parents are finding it difficult to understand what their students are learning.

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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.
Credit: Kate McGee/KUT

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

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