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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
An open letter to the president of Harvard
Summer School: Unfulfilled Promise
The Nation's Report Card: Geography 2001
Vouchers promote integration, not segregation
New wrinkles in the game of college admissions
Helping failing schools is easier said than done
School Evaluation Services Statewide Insights: State of Michigan
Developments in School Finance 1999-2000
The shame of the AFT
Zelman: The Triumph of Pluribus over Unum?
Higher Pay for Hard-to-Staff Schools: The Case for Financial Incentives
Shooting for the Sun: The Message of Middle School Reform (Selected Remarks of M. Hayes Mizell)
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