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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
Yes, impacts on test scores matter
Findings about school choice programs shouldn't be applied to individual schools
Three education reform ideas for wannabe governors
Can social studies get even worse?
Keep what's valuable in the discipline guidance—but drop the racial quotas
A better curriculum in the Bayou State
No, the new GAO report on discipline doesn't prove racial disparities are caused predominantly by racial bias
How victims of child maltreatment fare in school
For the vast majority of school choice studies, short- and long-term impacts point in the same direction
Improving education policy by looking beyond the "experts"
When looking only at school choice programs, both short-term test scores and long-term outcomes are overwhelmingly positive
When it comes to graduation requirements, mastery matters
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