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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
Teacher chronic absenteeism rates in traditional public schools far exceed those of charters
Public schools' billion-hour teacher absenteeism problem
Public schools don't have a monopoly on creating good citizens
The charter movement's "tipping point" strategy isn't working. What now?
Does dual enrollment lead to a college degree?
D.C. Public Schools see large achievement gains, growing inequality
Praise for charter teachers—for showing up to work
VIDEO: Chester E. Finn, Jr. interviews David Osborne, author of "Reinventing America’s Schools"
A little known ESSA provision sheds some more light on Ohio’s graduation “fix”
researchED: Connecting education research and practice
Bricks without straw: Maryland's ESSA accountability plan
The creativity of the scientist and engineer
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