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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
It’s not grade inflation, it’s the education industry
A rising economic tide + reform + resources = better results for kids
The federal Charter Schools Program: A short, opinionated history, part I
Tell high school students the truth about college readiness
Scaling up proven charter school models
The implementation and impacts of reforms in Louisiana
The Education Gadfly Show: One small step for man, one giant leap for our schools?
Musings on the moonshots
A hypothesis: NCLB-era achievement gains stemmed largely from declining child poverty rates
Public attitudes toward gifted education: Supportive, complacent, incomplete
In Chicago, a new early-warning indicator for elementary schools
How to help students think critically
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