Education Report - Schools Find New Ways to Communicate With Parents

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VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in English. Today, schools in the United States communicate with in many different ways. Mail is still used, but , schools and parents connect through email, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr Skype. The Houston Independent School District in Texas has than 200,000 students. Most of them come from lower-income . The newspaper Education Week recently reported on a digital-literacy program that the district has started for parents. Microsoft the school district establish computer training centers for parents five of its campuses. Other schools around the country also increasing their digital services, and not just in . Many schools provide information in Spanish and other languages. online translation sites can also help parents stay informed their children's education. Some school systems even give parents access to their children's grades and schoolwork. Six hundred attend Knapp Elementary School near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joe Mazza head of the school. He says nearly one in of his students come from Bangladesh, and 12 percent from South Korea. Joe Mazza says the most important that a school gets to know parents is in meetings. But under his guidance, the school has added networking tools to meet the needs of the community. school uses resources like Twitter, e-newsletters and Skype. Teachers talk to parents over Skype if the parents cannot a conference in person. "Social media," Joe Mazza says, " providing us with many new, and really free ways connect with parents." For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel . (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 22Nov2012)

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