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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
America’s “lost decade” of academic achievement
Louisiana's remarkable reading test
Seven story lines to follow when the NAEP results are released next week
The benefits of attending National Heritage Academy for-profit charter schools
How smartphones affect undergraduate cognition
An answer to ESSA plan shortcomings: State solutions
Why Betsy DeVos will make a great White House chief of staff
A most formidable first grade teacher
"Alexa, save our schools"
A curmudgeon in a care circle
Fordham boils over
Mad about high school graduation scandals? Blame preschools.
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