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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 best colleges for political diversity

Waiver and out: How red states plan to push the limits of federal ed policy

12 guiding principles for the future of American education

Cheers and Jeers: April 3, 2025

What we’re reading this week: April 3, 2025

#963: All about the Educational Choice for Children Act, with Jim Blew

#4125: The mini gadflies: Chaos with a cause

Freddie deBoer is right about one thing, not everything

New Nation’s Report Card disappoints—but shouldn’t surprise

The pandemic was a Sputnik moment for rethinking education, and we blew it

Do education savings accounts increase the cost of private school tuition?

Cheers and Jeers: March 27, 2025
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