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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
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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
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How states can slow the staffing surge
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We’ve been treating college as a career plan, but it’s failing too many students
What teachers should learn: An alternative graduate school curriculum
College or career? On false positives and negatives
Student AI use is about much more than school rules
The quickest way to expand school choice is to fill empty private school seats
What state standards look like on the NAEP scale
How money and time shape children’s early advantages
AI in schools: Ban it or embrace it? | Episode 1034 of The Education Gadfly Show
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