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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
The politics & partisanship of America's education reform debate: Time for a suburban strategy?
Charters and vouchers: Two peas in a pod
Linda Darling-Hammond: Inapplicable insights
Child-centered school proposals should prompt rigorous authorizing—not lazy denials
Whether the Common Core is working, and what research is needed
How school lunch quality affects student achievement
The politics & partisanship of the education reform debate: Why being 'right' isn't enough
Fancy private schools swim in Lake Wobegon
Unless they want to flunk virtually all high-poverty schools, policymakers should go for growth
Preparing students for work is the job of every educator—even English teachers
Resuscitating the science of reading
Are we asking charter schools to do too much?
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