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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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The year’s best State of the State address for education reform
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Can we stop pretending fraud in education is victimless?
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Are career-tech students preparing for jobs that actually exist?
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Slouching toward aristocracy
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Five lessons from my time on the Maryland State Board of Education, part II
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The prevalence and effects of math anxiety
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The Education Gadfly Show: CTE and local labor markets
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Acclaimed Princeton professor to America’s high schools: Please send us students who can think for themselves
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Re-weaving the fabric of character
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Dems add ed to Green New Deal: Rich kids’ schools to close until achievement gap eliminated
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Emily Hanford's latest edu-doc takes on K–12 chemistry
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Exclusive interview with President Trump's fourth-grade teacher, Kimberley June
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