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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.
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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
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Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures
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Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures
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Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis
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A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online
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6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction
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Why states should use student growth, and not proficiency rates, when gauging school effectiveness
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Which text-set approach is right for you?
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Does preschool add value?
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Maryland school calendars: From bad to worse
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The civility edition
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How performance evaluation reform affects the teacher labor market
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Theresa May—or may not—bring back grammar schools
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Assessing the evidence base for school discipline reform
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Press tuned in to the school choice split in the Black community—and that's a good thing
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Text sets: Building blocks of background knowledge
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One-stop shopping for Common Core
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