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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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Most parents still live in Lake Wobegon
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Are university-based teacher education schools responsive to public ratings?
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An experiment in incentivizing innovation
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Test-based accountability deserves to be assessed against a valid hypothesis, not a straw man
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What if students walked out to protest low-performing schools?
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An important moment thirty-five years after "A Nation at Risk"
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Ohio to Florida: Better schools for thee but not for me?
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We should irrigate charter school deserts. Here's how.
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No, NAEP scores in California don't evince a lost decade of educational progress
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NEW REPORT: Charter School Deserts: High-Poverty Neighborhoods with Limited Educational Options
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Some racial and ethnic groups do much better on NAEP than others. Here are some factors that might explain why.
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How accountability metrics related to student subgroups affect teacher turnover and attrition
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