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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
Cheers and Jeers: October 2, 2026
My son needed to leave his school, but I did not: A reflection on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay
A comprehensive list of the responses to the Nikole Hannah-Jones article
The uneven ground of the no-zero grading policy landscape
Do dual enrollment students still benefit despite failing college courses?
The lessons we’re not learning from Nikole Hannah-Jones
School discipline: A new rulebook (again) | Episode 1036 of The Education Gadfly Show
Wonkathon 2026: What rules should govern the uses of digital technology in schools—and who should set them?
It’s not AI vs. human grading. It’s which design choices you make.
Bans aren’t the answer
I also sent my children to a nonselective, overwhelmingly minority public school, but it wasn’t a sacrifice
What we’re reading: September 25, 2026
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