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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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Why do we accept higher expectations on the field than in the classroom?
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The million-dollar question: What will it take to improve education in America?
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Finding the sweet spot between defeatism and utopianism when setting school standards
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How high school teachers can better engage their students, according to the teenagers themselves
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Do charter schools take districts’ money? Only if you think children, and the funding that comes with them, are district property
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Stuyvesant High School et. al: The inevitability of selectivity
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Advice for states hell-bent on revising the Common Core
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A tangled web: The high school diploma, college and career readiness, and CTE
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The state of low-income students at selective colleges
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“Holding students to high expectations” is harder than it sounds
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John McCain: The best education president we never had
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Seats sit empty while black and brown students are turned away
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