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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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Reduce Your Losses: Help New Teachers Become Veteran Teachers, Southern Regional Education Board
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Success Against the Odds: Five Years On
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Certified Teachers in Schools But Out of the Classrooms
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Teacher Training and Texas Educational Reform: A Study in Contradiction, The Independent Institute
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Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion?
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High Student Achievement: How Six School Districts Changed into High-Performing Systems
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Summer reading from the AFT
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Affirmative action for speakers of second languages
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Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality
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School Choice in New Zealand: Sixteen Years of Unprecedented Success
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Paige Nonsense
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