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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
The Education Gadfly Show: Research Deep Dive: Everything we know about effective teachers
Access, equity, and quality in dual enrollment
Restorative justice gone wrong: One mother’s horror story
Advanced coursework gets a needed boost
The metric that matters most: Ask kids, “Are you in?”
Closing the teacher quality gap
The Education Gadfly Show: Charter schools lift all boats
Here’s more evidence that expanding charter schools in big cities helps all kids of color, even those who stay in district schools. Are critics willing to rethink their opposition?
NEW REPORT: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement
A new era of accountability in education has barely just begun
Charter schools point to new ways of racially integrating public schools
Education’s “CRIKT” is “CUSS”
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