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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
Is tutoring the next big thing? | Episode 1001 of The Education Gadfly Show
The importance of useful knowledge and truth-seeking
Using knowledge-building curriculum doesn’t guarantee “robust” reading comprehension
What we’re reading: January 9, 2026
Cheers and Jeers: January 9, 2026
A generation that doesn’t know what time it is
How charter schools should approach innovation
The education research handbook that never closes
Impacts of student-teacher gender matching in elementary grades
Summer school as an effective post-pandemic academic intervention
An Education State of the Union | Episode 1000 of The Education Gadfly Show
Remembering Lou Gerstner
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