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Article: Teacher-parent communication reforms.
- Article from:
- High School Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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School practices for contacting parents should be modernized because they lack reliability and are often ineffective. A field-test was conducted with support from Motorola to assess the potential of new communication methods. One method allows teachers, using a common set of codes, to record notable student conduct onto personal digital assistants (PDAs). The second method enables faculty to notify parents by pager quickly so they can assume their priority role for corrective guidance or reinforce reports of good behavior. Fourteen faculty documented the notable behaviors of 108 high school students and reported to parents using pagers during one semester. Over 90% of ...