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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
Four Observations
Why not multiple state tests instead of just one?
Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teacher 2001
Investing in Excellence: Making Title I Work for All Children
The case against Alfie Kohn
The new age of individualized education
Putting teacher certification under a microscope
School Vouchers: Publicly Funded Programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee
Launching 50 new Latino charter schools
New research on merit pay
The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
Teaching history in a time of terrorism
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