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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.
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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
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Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures
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Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures
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Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis
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A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online
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6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction
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Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society
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Do charter schools do it differently?
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Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom
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Earliest charter schools unearthed in New Hampshire (circa 1781)
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Standard & Poor's adds value in Michigan
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What Stanley Kaplan taught us about the S.A.T.: it measures effort, not aptitude
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Career Academies: Impacts on Students' Initial Transitions to Post-Secondary Education and Employment
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Dispelling the Myth Revisited: Preliminary Findings from a Nationwide Analysis of "High-Flying Schools"
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Research-based practices less popular than social engineering in some fields
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The Global Education Industry: Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries
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The story behind puzzling dropout figures
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Generation gap among teachers argues for flexibility in the profession
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