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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
With more than half of states closing their schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other caregivers have become de facto “home schoolers” practically overnight. Students in this situation will likely be spending a fair amount of time on screens—as a lifeline, respite, or both. We have compiled some excellent suggestions—updated several times since initial publication—for making at least some of that time educational.

Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures

Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures

Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures

Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis

A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online

6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction

LOLCats: A real efficiency effort for our schools

Education at an inflection point

Trump needs to call Lamar

Cheers and Jeers: March 20, 2025

What we’re reading this week: March 20, 2025

#961: How “No Excuses” charter schools went off the rails, with Steven Wilson

11 thoughts about the massive layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education

Should schools pay students to attend remediation programs?

The return of accountability

Barriers to teaching and assessing “soft skills”

Cheers and Jeers: March 13, 2025

What we’re reading this week: March 13, 2025
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