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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
Breaking News: Ed School Profs Endorse Phonics and Mandated Curricula!
Should homework be abolished or expanded?
Financial Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on the State of New Hampshire
Are Advanced Placement (AP) courses still the gold standard?
Culture clash between philanthropists and public school systems
Special ed reauthorization heating up
Private schools more likely to dismiss teachers for poor performance
New SAT measures creative and practical skills, boosts minority scores
Snowmen, huts, yachts banned from textbooks by language police
New York's Finest (?) and the Perils of Determinism
Unions behind the push to hire more teachers without reducing class size
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