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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
Rod Paige on the lessons of KIPP and early charters
By The Company It Keeps: Kaya Henderson
Good charters are good choices: Shyanne’s story (Dayton Early College Academy)
An interview with Rod Paige
Balancing excellence and equity: The twenty-first-century struggle of gifted education
The effect of classroom environment on student success
The effects of D.C.’s citywide charter school lottery
The state of education journalism
NPR's Rocketship exposé fizzles on the launchpad
The next twenty-five years of charter schools: Bigger, broader, and bolder
What teachers really think of Common Core math: Lessons from a new Fordham study
The Brexit edition
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