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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
Why struggling students remain below grade level, and how to help them
Do U.S. schools use discriminatory practices when suspending students with disabilities?
What the research tells us about the outcomes of a good civics education
Failing and passing the “Tiffany Test,” part II
NewSchools isn't overselling SEL: A response to Checker Finn
Standardized tests remain the best way to fairly and equitably assess students
Don’t oversell SEL
Denver’s rapidly-shrinking school choice tent
Failing and passing the “Tiffany Test,” part I
When a school is improving, stay out of the way, warns an important new book
Texas’s shale boom boosted local tax bases. Here’s how it affected schools.
The Education Gadfly Show: Why the Big Easy’s big gains are over
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