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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: The benefits of having a same-race teacher
Beating the drum for charter schools
The education-health care perplex
Fordham-CAP “Moonshot for Kids” competition is now open
Good jobs don’t always require college
Spelling bees and Tiger Woods
Schools aren’t democracies, but they shouldn’t be autocracies either
The pragmatism of personalized pacing
The Education Gadfly Show: Rural schools and the urban bleed
The negative effects of “crime-prone” peers
The results of Florida’s education reforms are impressive. Their ROI is totally off the charts.
New American Schools: A short, opinionated history, part III
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