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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
Classrooms aren’t battlegrounds
Showing up for success: How two high-poverty D.C. schools tackle chronic absenteeism
Education savings accounts: Boffo or bonkers? | Episode 1002 of The Education Gadfly Show
Remembering Stephen Hess
Tutoring works when it’s done well. Period.
Three reasons to support tutoring
What we’re reading: January 16, 2026
Cheers and Jeers: January 16, 2026
For the science of reading, the “big work” is yet to come
What two leaders from the 1990s can teach us about education and economic competitiveness today
In praise of short works of literature
The Mississippi Miracle wasn’t a retention-policy mirage
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