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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

#960: Why Secretary McMahon shouldn’t waive federal testing requirements, with Charles Barone

Are states ready to lead on education? Could Trump’s policies set them up to fail?

Three good reasons teachers shouldn’t D.I.Y. their lessons (and shouldn’t be asked to)

Defunding the teacher trainers

Did the most well-known and influential study in K–12 education get it wrong?

How school HVAC systems affect learning

Cheers and Jeers: March 6, 2025

What we’re reading this week: March 6, 2025

#959: Are GPAs the key to measuring school quality? with Jing Liu and Seth Gershenson

There is proof that knowledge works. And it’s overwhelming.

Open enrollment deserves bipartisan support

Hard lessons from the NAEP results
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