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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
Calling the ACLU!
What Research Says about Small Classes & Their Effects
Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence
California's Charter Schools: Oversight at All Levels Could be Stronger to Ensure Charter Schools' Accountability
On private schools and urban schools
Bearing, and shedding, the failure label
Portland principal wishes one-fourth of his teachers would leave
Three Paths, One Destination: Standards-Based Reform in Maryland, Massachusetts and Texas
Pennsylvania adopts sensible teacher quality reforms
Education for All Global Monitoring Report: Is the World on Track?
Reformers, not teachers, lack a funny bone
Young Americans clueless about geography
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