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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
Award a variety of high school diplomas with different requirements, but honor them all the same
This edtech could help teachers improve student writing
Make high school about content mastery, not time served
When students take tests, are they actually trying?
To fix the gaming of graduation requirements, we need to overhaul high schools and our policies governing them
Look beyond four-year graduation rates
Conversation and language development
Are charter schools more cost-effective than traditional public schools?
Where is the next "education governor"?
Let's make sure graduates actually know what's in the state standards
The art and science of charter school authorizing
Behind the curtain of Ohio school choice
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